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The dissolution of calcified invertebrate skeletons releases an elaborate mixture of proteins, glycoproteins and polysaccharides. These ‘skeletal matrix’ macromolecules are thought to play a major role in calcification and were widely used for phylogenetical studies. We tested the reactivity of water-soluble macromolecules from a wide range of invertebrate skeletons with two antisera raised against the shell matrix of the bivalve, Pinna nobilis. Projections of our results on the phylogenetical tree of Starobogatov (1992) show for the first time that, during evolution, antigenic determinants may degenerate in some stocks while they remain intact in others. The phylogenetic implications of these patterns of disjunct degeneration are discussed.
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Marin, F., Gillibert, M., Westbroek, P. et al. Evolution: disjunct degeneration of immunological determinants. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78, 135–139 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003882928828
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