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SUBMITTER: Feng D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5379566 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feng Dandan D Li Qi Q Yu Hong H Kong Lingfeng L Du Shaojun S
Scientific reports 20170404
The calcifying shell is an excellent model for studying biomineralization and evolution. However, the molecular mechanisms of shell formation are only beginning to be elucidated in Mollusca. It is known that shell matrix proteins (SMPs) play important roles in shell formation. With increasing data of shell matrix proteomes from various species, we carried out a BLASTp bioinformatics analysis using the shell matrix proteome from Crassostrea gigas against 443 SMPs from nine other species. The high ...[more]