Deciphering mollusc shell production : the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics

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Funding Information: This manuscript was partly funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7] ITN project ?CACHE: Calcium in a Changing Environment? (www.cache-itn.eu) under REA grant agreement 605051. The authors thank everyone involved in this project including Mark Blaxter, Xushuai Zhang, Yan Wang-Duffort, Nina Fox, Rita Pereira, Nicola Munro, Elaina Ford, Lucy Gonzalez, Christina Chatzela, Rachel Ramirez, our EU Project Officer Giuliana Donini and EU Mid-Term Review Expert Guy Duke. Also, many thanks to our Project Partners: the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers, specifically Nick Lake, Janet Brown and Walter Speirs, Coastal Research and Management, Kiel especially Peter Krost, and our External Experts Professor Catherine Boyen, Station Biologique de Roscoff and Professor Mike Thorndyke. We also thank Laura Gerrish and Jamie Oliver (British Antarctic Survey) for drawing figures. Additional funds were provided by Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT) through project UID/Multi/04326/2019 and the European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster-EMBRIC (EU H2020 research and innovation program, agreement n? 654008) and a Natural Environment Research Council Studentship (Project Reference: NE/J500173/1) to V.A.S. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Biological Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF