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Wang XH, Boreiko A, Schloßmacher U, Brandt D, Schr€ oder HC, Li J, Kaandorp JA, G€ otz H,
Duschner H, M€ uller WEG (2008) Axial growth of hexactinellid spicules: formation of conelike structural units in the giant basal spicules of the hexactinellid Monorhaphis. J Struct Biol
164:270–280
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sponge Monorhaphis chuni: morphology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Int Rev Cell
Mol Biol 273:69–115
Wang XH, Hu S, Gan L, Wiens M, M€ uller WEG (2010) Sponges (Porifera) as living metazoan
witnesses from the Neoproterozoic: biomineralization and the concept of their evolutionary
success. Terra Nova 22:1–11
Wang X, Wiens M, Schr€ oder HC, Hu S, Mugnaioli E, Kolb U, Tremel W, Pisignano D, M€ uller
WEG (2010) Morphology of sponge spicules: silicatein a structural protein for bio-silica
formation. Advanced Biomaterials/Advanced Engineering Mat 12:B422–B437
Wiens M, Wrede P, Grebenjuk VA, Kaluzhnaya OV, Belikov SI, Schr€ oder HC, M€ uller WEG
(2009) Towards a molecular systematics of the Lake Baikal/Lake Tuva sponges. In: M€ uller
WEG, Grachev MA (eds) Biosilica in evolution, morphogenesis, and nanobiotechnology.
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marine sponge Stelletta grubii (Porifera, Demospongiae). Zoomorphology 105:375–382
Sims PA, Mann DG, Medlin LK (2006) Evolution of the diatoms: insights from fossil, biological
and molecular data. Phycologia 45:361–402
Sollas WJ (1888) Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. “Challenger”, during the years
1873–1876. H.M.S. Challenger Scient Results Zool 25:1–458
Steiner M (1994) Die neoproterozoischen Megaalgen S€ udchinas. Berl Geowiss Abh E 15:1–146
Steiner M, Mehl D, Reitner J, Erdtmann BD (1993) Oldest entirely preserved sponges and other
fossils from the lowermost Cambrian and a new facies reconstruction of the Yangtze Platform
(China). Berl Geowiss Abh E 9:293–329
Steiner M, Zhu M, Zhao Y, Erdtmann BD (2005) Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil
associations of South China. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 220:129–152
Street-Perrott FA, Barker PA (2008) Biogenic silica: a neglected component of the coupled global
continental biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon. Earth Surf Process Land
33:1436–1457
Tahir MN, The ´ato P, M€ uller WEG, Schr€ oder HC, Janshoff A, Zhang J, Huth J, Tremel W (2004)
Monitoring the formation of biosilica catalysed by histidin-tagged silicatein. ChemComm
24:2848–2849
Teal JM, Carey FG (1967) Respiration of a Euphausiid from the oxygen minimum layer. Limnol
Oceanogr 12:548–550
Thompson D’Ary W (1942) On growth and form. University Press, Cambridge
Th€ ummler F, Oberacker R (1993) In: Jenkins IJ, Wood JV (eds) An introduction to powder
metallurgy. The Institute of Materials, book 490, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
pp. 181–188
Towe KM (1970) Oxygen-collagen priority and the early metazoan fossil record. Proc Natl Acad
Sci USA 65:781–788
Tucker ME (1992) The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary: seawater chemistry, ocean circulation
and nutrient supply in metazoan evolution, extinction and biomineralization. J Geol Soc Lond
149:655–688
Uriz MJ (2006) Mineral spiculogenesis in sponges. Can J Zool 84:322–356
Uriz MJ, Turon X, Becerro MA, Agell G (2003) Siliceous spicules and skeleton frameworks in
sponges: origin, diversity, ultrastructural patterns, biological functions. Microsc Res Tech
62:279–299
Wakai F, Aldinger F (2004) Sintering forces in equilibrium and nonequilibrium states during
sintering of two particles. Sci Technol Adv Mat 5:521–525
Walker JCG (1978/79) The early history of oxygen and ozone in the atmosphere. Pageoph
117:498–512
Wang XH, Boreiko A, Schloßmacher U, Brandt D, Schr€ oder HC, Li J, Kaandorp JA, G€ otz H,
Duschner H, M€ uller WEG (2008) Axial growth of hexactinellid spicules: formation of conelike structural units in the giant basal spicules of the hexactinellid Monorhaphis. J Struct Biol
164:270–280
Wang XH, Schr€ oder HC, M€ uller WEG (2009) Giant siliceous spicules from the deep-sea glass
sponge Monorhaphis chuni: morphology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Int Rev Cell
Mol Biol 273:69–115
Wang XH, Hu S, Gan L, Wiens M, M€ uller WEG (2010) Sponges (Porifera) as living metazoan
witnesses from the Neoproterozoic: biomineralization and the concept of their evolutionary
success. Terra Nova 22:1–11
Wang X, Wiens M, Schr€ oder HC, Hu S, Mugnaioli E, Kolb U, Tremel W, Pisignano D, M€ uller
WEG (2010) Morphology of sponge spicules: silicatein a structural protein for bio-silica
formation. Advanced Biomaterials/Advanced Engineering Mat 12:B422–B437
Wiens M, Wrede P, Grebenjuk VA, Kaluzhnaya OV, Belikov SI, Schr€ oder HC, M€ uller WEG
(2009) Towards a molecular systematics of the Lake Baikal/Lake Tuva sponges. In: M€ uller
WEG, Grachev MA (eds) Biosilica in evolution, morphogenesis, and nanobiotechnology.
280
W.E.G. M€ uller et al.