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To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification

Kevin Zelnio November 5, 2010 Best of Zelnio Biocalcification climate change CO2 Pteropod Scientific American

I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. […] To…

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Huge Silicate Sponge Spicules and the Evolution of Calcification

Kevin Zelnio May 27, 2010 Best of Zelnio Biocalcification carbonate Carbonic Anhydrase Hexactinellida LCAM Monorhaphis chuni Palaeogenomics Porifera Silica spicule sponge

The deep-sea sponge Monorhaphis chuni (Hexactinellida) has the world’s largest known biosilica structure! A silicate spicule that can grow up to 3 meters long. That’s…

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