Hierarchical Assembly of the Siliceous Skeletal Lattice of the Hexactinellid Sponge Euplectella aspergillum

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Weaver JC, Aizenberg J, Fantner GE, Kisailus D, Woesz A, Allen P, Fields K, Porter MJ, Zok FW, Hansma PK, et al. Hierarchical Assembly of the Siliceous Skeletal Lattice of the Hexactinellid Sponge Euplectella aspergillum. J. Struct. Biol. 2007;158 :93–106.
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We thank Micha Ilan, Garrett W. Milliron, and Amy Butros for their help and discussions. JCW and DEM were supported by Grants from NASA (NAG1-01-003 and NCC-1-02037), the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies through Grant DAAD19-03D-0004 from the Army Research Office, and the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program, U.S. Department of Commerce (NA36RG0537, Project R/MP-92) through the California Sea Grant College System and the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation under award# DMR- 00-8034 to the UCSB Materials Research Laboratory. GEF and PKH were supported by Grants from National Institutes of Health under Award GM65354, NASA University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute on Bio-inspired Materials under Award No. NCC-1-02037, and a research agreement with Veeco #SB030071. GEF thanks the Austrian Academy of Sciences through a DOC fellowship. JA was supported in part by the Binational US-Israel Science Foundation grant.
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