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Aug 2026
Evolution of biosilicification molecular toolkits in demosponges (Porifera)
An overview of the evolution of the biosilification process, with the most complete dataset to date, corroborates the hypothesis of independent origins for the main silicifying enzymes and provides a scenario of duplication and loss of genes that have allowed the massive diversification and evolutionary success of demo...
Maria Eleonora Rossi, N. Kenny, N. Santodomingo et al.
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