The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp.

Juliane Germer; Karlheinz Mann; Gert Wörheide; Daniel John Jackson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140100

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The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp.

Juliane Germer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Juliane Germer, Karlheinz Mann

Affiliation Department of Geobiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Karlheinz Mann ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Juliane Germer, Karlheinz Mann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Munich, Germany
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Gert Wörheide,

Affiliations Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, SNSB—Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology & Geology, München, Germany
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Daniel John Jackson

* E-mail: djackso@uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Department of Geobiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp.

Juliane Germer,
Karlheinz Mann,
Gert Wörheide,
Daniel John Jackson

Published: November 4, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140100

About the Authors

Juliane Germer

Contributed equally to this work with: Juliane Germer, Karlheinz Mann

Affiliation Department of Geobiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Karlheinz Mann

Contributed equally to this work with: Juliane Germer, Karlheinz Mann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Munich, Germany

Gert Wörheide

Affiliations Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, SNSB—Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology & Geology, München, Germany

Daniel John Jackson

* E-mail: djackso@uni-goettingen.de

Affiliation Department of Geobiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJJ KM. Performed the experiments: KM DJJ JG. Analyzed the data: KM DJJ JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM DJJ GW. Wrote the paper: KM DJJ JG. Sample collection: DJJ GW. Data interpretation and manuscript revision: KM JG GW DJJ.

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