Abstract
Two classes of the phylum Porifera, the Demospongiae and the Hexactinellida,produce hydrated, amorphous, and noncrystalline silica which they deposit in their spicules. In contrast, the third class of Porifera, the Calcarea, have a skeleton which is composed exclusively of calcite spicules. In Demospongiae the amorphous hydrated silica, similar to opal, is formed primarily intracellularly in a special type of cells, the sclerocytes (see Uriz et al. 2000).
Keywords
- Carbonic Anhydrase
- Amorphous Silica
- Isocitrate Dehydrogenase
- Marine Sponge
- Carbonic Anhydrase Activity
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Schröer, H.C. et al. (2003). Silicase, an Enzyme Which Degrades Biogenous Amorphous Silica: Contribution to the Metabolism of Silica Deposition in the Demosponge Suberites domuncula . In: Müller, W.E.G. (eds) Silicon Biomineralization. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55486-5_10
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