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Biomineralization
From Bi ology to Biotechnology
and Medical Application
Edited by Edmund Baeuerlein
Edmund Ba¨uerlein (Ed.)
Biomineralization
From Biology to Biotechnology and
Medical Application
Second, Completely Revised and Extended Edition
Prof. (em.) Dr. Edmund Ba¨uerlein
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Dept. of Membrane Biochemistry
Am Klopferspitz 18 A
82152 Martinsried
Germany
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Cover Illustration (Designed by Felix Ba¨uerlein):
Top left: Elongated prismatic ite crystals in membrane vesicles of a ic bacterium
(D. Schu¨ler, Chap. 4, p. 62).
Top right: Calcein-stained calcified skeletal structures in the caudal fin of zebrafish larvae (S. J. Du,
Y. Haga, Chap. 17, p. 296).
Bottom left: From aragonite to calcite. The change of shape from ‘‘ear-stone’’ through star-like
aragonite to pur calcite crystals in a down-regulation of the starmaker protein in the zebrafish
(C. So¨llner, T. Nicolson, Chap. 14, p. 236).
Bottom right: A micromechanical method to study stability of diatoms (C. Hamm, R. Merkel,
Chap. 18, p. 322).
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