Evagination of Cells Controls Bio-Silica Formation and Maturation during Spicule Formation in Sponges

• Xiaohong Wang,

  Affiliations National Research Center for Geoanalysis, Beijing, China, European Research Council Advanced Grant Research Group, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Matthias Wiens,

  Affiliation European Research Council Advanced Grant Research Group, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Heinz C. Schröder,

  Affiliation European Research Council Advanced Grant Research Group, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Ute Schloßmacher,

  Affiliation European Research Council Advanced Grant Research Group, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Dario Pisignano,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento and National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, Lecce, Italy

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• Klaus Peter Jochum,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

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• Werner E. G. Müller

  * E-mail: wmueller@uni-mainz.de

  Affiliation European Research Council Advanced Grant Research Group, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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