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spicules

Description: Small skeletal elements, commonly made of silica or calcium carbonate, that support the bodies of sponges and other marine invertebrates.
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Amorphous calcium carbonate transforms into calcite during sea urchin larval spicule growth
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The Heating of the Solar Chromosphere, Plages, and Corona by Magnetohydrodynamic Waves.
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The Origins of Hot Plasma in the Solar Corona
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Thesaurus of sponge morphology
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Solar Coronal Jets: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
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Acidified seawater impacts sea urchin larvae pH regulatory systems relevant for calcification
2012 · Meike Stumpp, Marian Y. Hu, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 284
Fibre-optical features of a glass sponge
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Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world
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Detection of stellate distortions in mammograms
1996 · N. Karssemeijer, G.M. te Brake · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · 256
Alfv�n waves in the solar atmosphere
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Molecular phylogeny of Demospongiae: implications for classification and scenarios of character evolution
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Hierarchical assembly of the siliceous skeletal lattice of the hexactinellid sponge Euplectella aspergillum
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Melanins and Resistance of Fungi to Lysis
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Rigid Biological Composite Materials: Structural Examples for Biomimetic Design
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Alfv�n waves in the solar atmosphere
1981 · Joseph V. Hollweg · Solar Physics · 187
The Biology of Glass Sponges
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Defenses of Caribbean sponges against predatory reef fish. II. Spicules, tissue toughness, and nutritional quality
1995 · B Chanas, JR Pawlik · Marine Ecology Progress Series · 172
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Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen
2010 · Hermann Ehrlich, Rainer Deutzmann, et al. · Nature Chemistry · 169
Un nouveau nématode pulmonaire, Pulmonema cantonensis, n. g., n. sp.
1935 · H.-T. Chen · Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée · 165
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Effects of Laminate Architecture on Fracture Resistance of Sponge Biosilica: Lessons from Nature
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Matrix and Mineral in the Sea Urchin Larval Skeleton
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