Abstract
Organic matrices of biominerals generally consist of proteins, glycoproteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, and their roles in mineralization have drawn considerable attention in recent years [1]. As in the vertebrates, the matrices of many invertebrate hard tissues such as foraminiferan tests [2], echinoderm hard parts [3, 4], molluscan shells [3, 5, 6, 7] and gorgonian spicules [8] have been shown to consist of water-soluble and insoluble components. However, unlike vertebrate osseous and dental tissues which are made of calcium phosphates, invertebrate hard tissues of calcium carbonate rarely contain collagenous protein components in the insoluble matrices [9].
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Watabe, N., Oishi, M., Kingsley, R.J. (1991). The Organic Matrix of Spicules of the Gorgonian Leptogorgia virgulata . In: Suga, S., Nakahara, H. (eds) Mechanisms and Phylogeny of Mineralization in Biological Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68132-8_2
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