Amorphous calcium carbonate particles form coral skeletons

T Mass, AJ Giuffre, CY Sun, CA Stifler… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Do corals form their skeletons by precipitation from solution or by attachment of amorphous
precursor particles as observed in other minerals and biominerals? The classical model …

[HTML][HTML] The digestive tract as an essential organ for water acquisition in marine teleosts: lessons from euryhaline eels

Y Takei - Zoological letters, 2021 - Springer
Adaptation to a hypertonic marine environment is one of the major topics in animal
physiology research. Marine teleosts lose water osmotically from the gills and compensate …

Staying hydrated in seawater

M Grosell, AM Oehlert - Physiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Reduction of intestinal lumen osmotic pressure by the formation of Ca (Mg) CO3,“
ichthyocarbonate,” is essential for osmoregulation by the only vertebrate group, ray-finned …

CO2 and calcification processes in fish

M Grosell - Fish physiology, 2019 - Elsevier
All teleost fish calcify and produce structures known as otoliths confined by saccular
epithelia in the inner ear. These structures enable detection of acceleration/movement …

Implications of dietary carbon incorporation in fish carbonates for the global carbon cycle

AM Oehlert, J Garza, S Nixon, LA Frank… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine bony fish are important participants in Earth's carbon cycle through their
contributions to the biological pump and the marine inorganic carbon cycle. However …

The role of marine fish-produced carbonates in the oceanic carbon cycle is determined by size, specific gravity, and dissolution rate

EJ Folkerts, AM Oehlert, RM Heuer, S Nixon… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rising CO 2 emissions have heightened the necessity for increased understanding of
Earth's carbon cycle to predict future climates. The involvement of marine planktonic species …

Calcium carbonate production by fish in temperate marine environments

MA Salter, CT Perry, AM Smith - Limnology and Oceanography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Marine bony fishes are an important source of calcium carbonate with relevance to sediment
production and inorganic carbon cycling. However, knowledge of the production and fate of …

[HTML][HTML] Long-read de novo genome assembly of Gulf toadfish (Opsanus beta)

NS Kron, BD Young, MK Drown, MD McDonald - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The family Batrachoididae are a group of ecologically important teleost
fishes with unique life histories, behavior, and physiology that has made them popular …

Interrogation of the Gulf toadfish intestinal proteome response to hypersalinity exposure provides insights into osmoregulatory mechanisms and regulation of …

KL Schauer, A Reddam, EG Xu, LM Wolfe… - … and Physiology Part D …, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine bony fish live in a hyperosmotic environment and maintain osmotic homeostasis by
drinking seawater, and absorbing salt and water across their gastrointestinal tract. Although …

Fractionation of the Gulf toadfish intestinal precipitate organic matrix reveals potential functions of individual proteins

KL Schauer, M Grosell - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A …, 2017 - Elsevier
The regulatory mechanisms behind the production of CaCO 3 in the marine teleost intestine
are poorly studied despite being essential for osmoregulation and responsible for a …