TY  - GEN 
AU  - Checa González, Antonio G.
AU  - Cartwright, Julyan H. E.
AU  - Sánchez-Almazo, Isabel
AU  - Andrade, José P.
AU  - Ruiz-Raya, Francisco
PY  - 2015
SN  - 2045-2322
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/37170
AB  - Cuttlebone, the sophisticated buoyancy device of cuttlefish, is made of extensive superposed chambers that have a complex internal arrangement of calcified pillars and organic membranes. It has not been clear how this structure is assembled. We find...
LA  - eng
PB  - Nature Publishing
KW  - Nanoscale biophysics
KW  - Biomaterials
KW  - Cuttlebone
TI  - The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor
DO  - 10.1038/srep11513
ER  -