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Matranga V, Bonaventura R, Costa C, Karakostis K, Pinsino A, Russo R, Zito F. (2011)
Echinoderms as blueprints for biocalcification: regulation of skeletogenic genes and matrices.
in Progress in molecular and subcellular biology
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