Calcium carbonate polyamorphism and its role in biomineralization: how many amorphous calcium carbonates are there? JHE Cartwright, AG Checa, JD Gale, D Gebauer, CI Sainz‐Díaz Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51 (48), 11960-11970, 2012 | 429 | 2012 |
The dynamics of nacre self-assembly JHE Cartwright, AG Checa Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4 (14), 491-504, 2007 | 260 | 2007 |
A new model for periostracum and shell formation in Unionidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca) A Checa Tissue and Cell 32 (5), 405-416, 2000 | 218 | 2000 |
Mineral bridges in nacre AG Checa, JHE Cartwright, MG Willinger Journal of structural biology 176 (3), 330-339, 2011 | 172 | 2011 |
Self-organisation of nacre in the shells of Pterioida (Bivalvia: Mollusca) AG Checa, AB Rodrı́guez-Navarro Biomaterials 26 (9), 1071-1079, 2005 | 156 | 2005 |
The nature and formation of calcitic columnar prismatic shell layers in pteriomorphian bivalves AG Checa, AB Rodríguez-Navarro, FJ Esteban-Delgado Biomaterials 26 (32), 6404-6414, 2005 | 139 | 2005 |
Physical and biological determinants of the fabrication of molluscan shell microstructures AG Checa Frontiers in Marine Science 5, 353, 2018 | 122 | 2018 |
Crystallographic structure of the foliated calcite of bivalves AG Checa, FJ Esteban-Delgado, AB Rodríguez-Navarro Journal of structural biology 157 (2), 393-402, 2007 | 105 | 2007 |
The key role of the surface membrane in why gastropod nacre grows in towers AG Checa, JHE Cartwright, MG Willinger Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (1), 38-43, 2009 | 103 | 2009 |
Organization pattern of nacre in Pteriidae (Bivalvia: Mollusca) explained by crystal competition AG Checa, T Okamoto, J Ramírez Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1592), 1329-1337, 2006 | 101 | 2006 |
The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor AG Checa, JHE Cartwright, I Sánchez-Almazo, JP Andrade, F Ruiz-Raya Scientific Reports 5 (1), 11513, 2015 | 88 | 2015 |
Shell microstructure of the early bivalve Pojetaia and the independent origin of nacre within the mollusca MJ Vendrasco, AG Checa, AV Kouchinsky Palaeontology 54 (4), 825-850, 2011 | 88 | 2011 |
Spiral and target patterns in bivalve nacre manifest a natural excitable medium from layer growth of a biological liquid crystal JHE Cartwright, AG Checa, B Escribano, CI Sainz-Díaz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (26), 10499-10504, 2009 | 88 | 2009 |
Geometrical and crystallographic constraints determine the self-organization of shell microstructures in Unionidae (Bivalvia: Mollusca) AG Checa, A Rodríguez-Navarro Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2001 | 79 | 2001 |
Precipitation of aragonite by calcitic bivalves in Mg-enriched marine waters AG Checa, C Jiménez-López, A Rodríguez-Navarro, JP Machado Marine Biology 150, 819-827, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
Constructional morphology, origin, and evolution of the gastropod operculum AG Checa, AP Jiménez-Jiménez Paleobiology 24 (1), 109-132, 1998 | 75 | 1998 |
Organic membranes determine the pattern of the columnar prismatic layer of mollusc shells AG Checa, E Macías-Sánchez, EM Harper, JHE Cartwright Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1830), 20160032, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
On the origin of ammonite sutures JM Garcia-Ruiz, A Checa, P Rivas Paleobiology 16 (3), 349-354, 1990 | 63 | 1990 |
Crystallographic orientation inhomogeneity and crystal splitting in biogenic calcite AG Checa, JT Bonarski, MG Willinger, M Faryna, K Berent, B Kania, ... Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10 (86), 20130425, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
Los aspidoceratiformes en Europa:(ammonitina, FAM aspidoceratidae: subfamilias aspidoceratinal y physodoceratinae) A Checa Universidad, 1985 | 62 | 1985 |