Global climate change is projected to accelerate during the next century, altering oceanic
patterns in temperature, p H and oxygen concentrations. Documenting patterns of genetic …

Mytilus coruscus is an economically important marine calcifier living in the Yangtze River
estuary sea area, where seasonal fluctuations in natural pH occur owing to freshwater input …

The water soluble matrix of nacre is a proven osteoinductive material. In spite of the
differences in the biomolecular compositions of nacre obtained from multiple species of …

To address the mechanism of elemental incorporation into shells of the bivalve Arctica
islandica, we performed two-dimensional elemental mapping of Sr, Mg, and S at a∼ 3 μm …

We describe an in-depth investigation on the dynamics and assembly behavior at polar–
apolar interfaces of ferritin-PNIPAAm conjugates (poly-N-isopropylacrylamide). The …

Nature is able to produce various inorganic structures with very specific fine structures in the
micro-and nano-regime, which are facilitated and controlled by protein-based systems …

The metal bioadsorption potential of shell dust of the freshwater snail Melanoides
tuberculata (MTSD) was evaluated under laboratory conditions using cadmium as a model …

Keratan sulfate possesses considerable amounts of negatively charged sulfonic acid groups
and participates in biomineralization. In the present study, we investigated characteristics …

Mollusc shells are typically made of calcite, aragonite or, in rare cases, vaterite (Weiner et
al., 2009; Ehrlich, 2010). These minerals are interspersed with protein matrix and sometimes …

The shell of the pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata) mainly comprises aragonite whereas that of
the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is mainly calcite, thereby suggesting the different …