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A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell

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Title
A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell
Published in
BMC Biology, November 2006
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-4-40
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Daniel J Jackson, Carmel McDougall, Kathryn Green, Fiona Simpson, Gert Wörheide, Bernard M Degnan

Abstract

Instructions to fabricate mineralized structures with distinct nanoscale architectures, such as seashells and coral and vertebrate skeletons, are encoded in the genomes of a wide variety of animals. In mollusks, the mantle is responsible for the extracellular production of the shell, directing the ordered biomineralization of CaCO3 and the deposition of architectural and color patterns. The evolutionary origins of the ability to synthesize calcified structures across various metazoan taxa remain obscure, with only a small number of protein families identified from molluskan shells. The recent sequencing of a wide range of metazoan genomes coupled with the analysis of gene expression in non-model animals has allowed us to investigate the evolution and process of biomineralization in gastropod mollusks.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
France 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Australia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 147 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 22%
Professor 15 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 9%
Student > Master 12 7%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 21 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 89 55%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 7%
Environmental Science 6 4%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 29 18%