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Articles | Volume 15, issue 21
Articles | Volume 15, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6591-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6591-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 21
Research article
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07 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2018

Marine and freshwater micropearls: biomineralization producing strontium-rich amorphous calcium carbonate inclusions is widespread in the genus Tetraselmis (Chlorophyta)

Agathe Martignier, Montserrat Filella, Kilian Pollok, Michael Melkonian, Michael Bensimon, François Barja, Falko Langenhorst, Jean-Michel Jaquet, and Daniel Ariztegui

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The unicellular microalga Tetraselmis cordiformis (Chlorophyta) was recently discovered to form intracellular mineral inclusions, called micropearls, which had been previously overlooked. The present study shows that 10 Tetraselmis species out of the 12 tested share this biomineralization capacity, producing amorphous calcium carbonate inclusions often enriched in Sr. This novel biomineralization process can take place in marine, brackish or freshwater and is therefore a widespread phenomenon.
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