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Subdaily Growth Patterns and Organo-Mineral Nanostructure of the Growth Layers in the Calcitic Prisms of the Shell of Concholepas concholepas Bruguière, 1789 (Gastropoda, Muricidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2007

Nury Guzman ,
Alexander D. Ball ,
Jean-Pierre Cuif ,
Yannicke Dauphin ,
Alain Denis  and
Luc Ortlieb
Nury Guzman
Affiliation:
UR055 PALEOTROPIQUE, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 32 rue Henri Varagnat, F-93143 Bondy, France
Alexander D. Ball
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Jean-Pierre Cuif
Affiliation:
URM 8148 Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements de Surface, bât 504, Université Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
Yannicke Dauphin
Affiliation:
URM 8148 Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements de Surface, bât 504, Université Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
Alain Denis
Affiliation:
URM 8148 Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements de Surface, bât 504, Université Paris XI, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
Luc Ortlieb
Affiliation:
UR055 PALEOTROPIQUE, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 32 rue Henri Varagnat, F-93143 Bondy, France
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Abstract

Fluorochrome marking of the gastropod Concholepas concholepas has shown that the prismatic units of the shell are built by superimposition of isochronic growth layers of about 2 μm. Fluorescent growth marks make it possible to establish the high periodicity of the cyclic biomineralization process at a standard growth rhythm of about 45 layers a day. Sulphated polysaccharides have been identified within the growth layers by using synchrotron radiation, whereas high resolution mapping enables the banding pattern of the mineral phase to be correlated with the layered distribution of polysaccharides. Atomic force microscopy has shown that the layers are made of nanograins densely packed in an organic component.

Keywords

biomineralizationsulphated polysaccharidesmicrostructureorgano-mineral nanograins
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BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 397 - 403
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© 2007 Microscopy Society of America

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