List of works - Antonio G. Checa

A new model for periostracum and shell formation in Unionidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca).

scientific article published in October 2000

Anisotropy of Mechanical Properties of Pinctada margaritifera Mollusk Shell

scientific article published on 28 March 2020

Articulation and growth of skeletal elements in balanid barnacles (Balanidae, Balanomorpha, Cirripedia)

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Bending and branching of calcite laths in the foliated microstructure of pectinoidean bivalves occurs at coherent crystal lattice orientation

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

Biological strategy for the fabrication of highly ordered aragonite helices: the microstructure of the cavolinioidean gastropods

scientific article

Biosorption of thorium on the external shell surface of bivalve mollusks: the role of shell surface microtopography.

scientific article

Calcite fibre formation in modern brachiopod shells

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Calcium carbonate polyamorphism and its role in biomineralization: how many amorphous calcium carbonates are there?

scientific article

Crystal growth as an excitable medium.

scientific article published in June 2012

Crystallographic control on the substructure of nacre tablets

scientific article

Crystallographic relationships in the crossed lamellar microstructure of the shell of the gastropod Conus marmoreus

scientific article published on 07 November 2011

Crystallographic reorganization of the calcitic prismatic layer of oysters.

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Early stage biomineralization in the periostracum of the 'living fossil' bivalve Neotrigonia

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Fabricational morphology of oblique ribs in bivalves

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Fluid-flow-templated self-assembly of calcium carbonate tubes in the laboratory and in biomineralization: The tubules of the watering-pot shells, Clavagelloidea.

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Helical microstructures in molluscan biomineralization are a biological example of close packed helices that may form from a colloidal liquid crystal precursor in a twist–bend nematic phase

scientific article published in 2022

Irregularities of crystallographic orientation and residual stresses in the crossed-lamellar shell as a natural functionally graded material.

scientific article published on December 2015

Microstructure and crystallography of the wall plates of the giant barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus: a material organized by crystal growth

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Mineral bridges in nacre ⬇️

scientific article published on September 29, 2011

Nacre Is a Liquid-Crystal Thermometer of the Oceans

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Nacre and false nacre (foliated aragonite) in extant monoplacophorans (=Tryblidiida: Mollusca).

scientific article

Organic membranes determine the pattern of the columnar prismatic layer of mollusc shells.

scientific article published in May 2016

Organization pattern of nacre in Pteriidae (Bivalvia: Mollusca) explained by crystal competition

article

Regulation of spiral coiling in the terrestrial gastropod Sphincterochila: An experimental test of the road-holding model

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Seasonal variations of pH, pCO2, pO2, HCO3- and Ca2+ in the haemolymph: implications on the calcification physiology in Anodonta cygnea.

scientific article

Self-organisation of nacre in the shells of Pterioida (Bivalvia: Mollusca)

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Shell nacre ultrastructure and depressurisation dissolution in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus.

scientific article published on 8 August 2007

Spiral and target patterns in bivalve nacre manifest a natural excitable medium from layer growth of a biological liquid crystal

scientific article

Structure and crystallography of foliated and chalk shell microstructures of the oyster Magallana: the same materials grown under different conditions.

scientific article

The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor

scientific article

The dynamics of nacre self-assembly

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2007)

The key role of the surface membrane in why gastropod nacre grows in towers

scholarly article

The nature and formation of calcitic columnar prismatic shell layers in pteriomorphian bivalves.

scientific article published in November 2005

The present scope of Biomineralization.

scientific article published in November 2016

The shell organic matrix of the crossed lamellar queen conch shell (Strombus gigas).

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

Transformation of ACC into aragonite and the origin of the nanogranular structure of nacre.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Ultrastructure of the Interlamellar Membranes of the Nacre of the Bivalve Pteria hirundo, Determined by Immunolabelling

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

List of works by Antonio G. Checa

A new model for periostracum and shell formation in Unionidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca).

Anisotropy of Mechanical Properties of Pinctada margaritifera Mollusk Shell

Articulation and growth of skeletal elements in balanid barnacles (Balanidae, Balanomorpha, Cirripedia)

Bending and branching of calcite laths in the foliated microstructure of pectinoidean bivalves occurs at coherent crystal lattice orientation

Biological strategy for the fabrication of highly ordered aragonite helices: the microstructure of the cavolinioidean gastropods

Biosorption of thorium on the external shell surface of bivalve mollusks: the role of shell surface microtopography.

Calcite fibre formation in modern brachiopod shells

Calcium carbonate polyamorphism and its role in biomineralization: how many amorphous calcium carbonates are there?

Crystal growth as an excitable medium.

Crystallographic control on the substructure of nacre tablets

Crystallographic relationships in the crossed lamellar microstructure of the shell of the gastropod Conus marmoreus

Crystallographic reorganization of the calcitic prismatic layer of oysters.

Early stage biomineralization in the periostracum of the 'living fossil' bivalve Neotrigonia

Fabricational morphology of oblique ribs in bivalves

Fluid-flow-templated self-assembly of calcium carbonate tubes in the laboratory and in biomineralization: The tubules of the watering-pot shells, Clavagelloidea.

Helical microstructures in molluscan biomineralization are a biological example of close packed helices that may form from a colloidal liquid crystal precursor in a twist–bend nematic phase

Irregularities of crystallographic orientation and residual stresses in the crossed-lamellar shell as a natural functionally graded material.

Microstructure and crystallography of the wall plates of the giant barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus: a material organized by crystal growth

Mineral bridges in nacre ⬇️

Nacre Is a Liquid-Crystal Thermometer of the Oceans

Nacre and false nacre (foliated aragonite) in extant monoplacophorans (=Tryblidiida: Mollusca).

Organic membranes determine the pattern of the columnar prismatic layer of mollusc shells.

Organization pattern of nacre in Pteriidae (Bivalvia: Mollusca) explained by crystal competition

Regulation of spiral coiling in the terrestrial gastropod Sphincterochila: An experimental test of the road-holding model

Seasonal variations of pH, pCO2, pO2, HCO3- and Ca2+ in the haemolymph: implications on the calcification physiology in Anodonta cygnea.

Self-organisation of nacre in the shells of Pterioida (Bivalvia: Mollusca)

Shell nacre ultrastructure and depressurisation dissolution in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus.

Spiral and target patterns in bivalve nacre manifest a natural excitable medium from layer growth of a biological liquid crystal

Structure and crystallography of foliated and chalk shell microstructures of the oyster Magallana: the same materials grown under different conditions.

The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor

The dynamics of nacre self-assembly

The key role of the surface membrane in why gastropod nacre grows in towers

The nature and formation of calcitic columnar prismatic shell layers in pteriomorphian bivalves.

The present scope of Biomineralization.

The shell organic matrix of the crossed lamellar queen conch shell (Strombus gigas).

Transformation of ACC into aragonite and the origin of the nanogranular structure of nacre.

Ultrastructure of the Interlamellar Membranes of the Nacre of the Bivalve Pteria hirundo, Determined by Immunolabelling