| 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 | 499 | 2012 |
| The dynamics of nacre self-assembly JHE Cartwright, AG Checa Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4 (14), 491-504, 2007 | 276 | 2007 |
| A new model for periostracum and shell formation in Unionidae (Bivalvia, Mollusca) A Checa Tissue and Cell 32 (5), 405-416, 2000 | 239 | 2000 |
| Physical and biological determinants of the fabrication of molluscan shell microstructures AG Checa Frontiers in Marine Science 5, 353, 2018 | 184 | 2018 |
| Mineral bridges in nacre AG Checa, JHE Cartwright, MG Willinger Journal of structural biology 176 (3), 330-339, 2011 | 183 | 2011 |
| Self-organisation of nacre in the shells of Pterioida (Bivalvia: Mollusca) AG Checa, AB Rodrı́guez-Navarro Biomaterials 26 (9), 1071-1079, 2005 | 159 | 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 | 154 | 2005 |
| 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 | 118 | 2007 |
| 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 | 112 | 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 | 105 | 2015 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 99 | 2009 |
| 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 | 95 | 2011 |
| Precipitation of aragonite by calcitic bivalves in Mg-enriched marine waters AG Checa, C Jiménez-López, A Rodríguez-Navarro, JP Machado Marine Biology 150 (5), 819-827, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
| 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 | 85 | 2001 |
| Constructional morphology, origin, and evolution of the gastropod operculum AG Checa, AP Jimenez-Jimenez Paleobiology 24 (1), 109-132, 1998 | 83 | 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 | 82 | 2016 |
| Los aspidoceratiformes en Europa:(ammonitina, FAM aspidoceratidae: subfamilias aspidoceratinal y physodoceratinae) A Checa Universidad, 1985 | 79 | 1985 |
| Transformation of ACC into aragonite and the origin of the nanogranular structure of nacre E Macías-Sánchez, MG Willinger, CM Pina, AG Checa Scientific reports 7 (1), 12728, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| Structure and crystallography of foliated and chalk shell microstructures of the oyster Magallana: the same materials grown under different conditions AG Checa, EM Harper, A González-Segura Scientific reports 8 (1), 7507, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
Alejandro Rodriguez-NavarroProfesor Cristalografia y Mineralogia Universidad de GranadaVerified email at ugr.es
