Origin, Evolution, and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Plants and Animals

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Some Factors Influencing Biomineralization in Earth History....Pages 1-10
Biomineralization and Tentative Links to Plate Tectonics....Pages 11-27
The Soda Ocean Concept and Its Bearing on Biotic Evolution....Pages 29-43
Organismic Autonomy in Biomineralization Processes....Pages 45-56
Biomineralization Mechanisms....Pages 57-73
The Evolution of Mineral Skeletons....Pages 75-94
Evolution of Biomineralization Systems within the Cephalopoda....Pages 95-102
Tidally Deposited Bands in Shells of Barnacles and Molluscs....Pages 103-124
Silicification Processes in Sponges: Geodia Asters and the Problem of Morphogenesis of Spicule Shape....Pages 125-136
Structure of Molluscan Prismatic Shell Layers....Pages 137-151
Architecture and Chemical Composition of the Magnetite-Bearing Layer in the Radula Teeth of Chiton Olivaceus (Polyplacophora)....Pages 153-166
Calcium Binding Substance in the Hermatypic Coral, Acropora Hebes (Dana)....Pages 167-174
Skeletal Organization in Caribbean Acropora Spp. (Lamarck)....Pages 175-199
Calcite Centers of Calcification in Mussa Angulosa (Scleractinia)....Pages 201-207
Extra-, Inter-, and Intracellular Mineralization in Invertebrates and Algae....Pages 209-223
Ultrastructural and Protein Aspects of Apatite Formation in Vertebrate Hard Tissues....Pages 225-235
The Phosphatic Mode of Calcification in Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Integument and Skeleton of Vertebrates....Pages 237-249
Low Temperature Carbonate Phosphate Materials or the Carbonate — Apatite Problem: A Review....Pages 251-264
Phosphorus and the Ferritin Iron Core: Function-Balanced Biomineralization....Pages 265-272
The Role of Inorganic Phosphate in Iron Oxide Biomineralization....Pages 273-288
High Capacity Calcium-Binding Proteins as Intermediate Calcium Carriers in Biological Mineralization....Pages 289-298
Morphology and Biomineralization: A Carbonate Model....Pages 299-302
Mineral Induction by the Soluble Matrix from Molluscan Shells....Pages 303-308
Composition and Association of Organic Matter with Calcium Carbonate and the Origin of Calcification....Pages 309-323
The Proteins in the Shell of Lingula ....Pages 325-328
Amino Acids in Planktonic Foraminifera: Are They Phylogenetically Useful?....Pages 329-338
Ontogenetic Variations in the Distribution of Ca and Mg in Skeletal Tissues of Vertebrates and Invertebrates....Pages 339-347
Strontium is Required in Artificial Seawater for Embryonic Shell Formation in Two Species of Bivalve Molluscs....Pages 349-366
Form and Function of Calcium Concretions in Unionids....Pages 367-384
Trace Metal Concentration in Fossil and Recent Shells of the Arctic Infaunal Bivalve, Mya truncata L.....Pages 385-392
Function of Molluscan Statocysts....Pages 393-408
Calcification in Higher Plants with Special Reference to Cystoliths....Pages 409-418
Aspects of Biological Silicification....Pages 419-431
Systems of Biomineralization in the Fungi....Pages 433-441
Growth and Calcification of Calothrix — Dominated Oncolites from Northern England....Pages 443-454
Peridial Calcification in the Myxomycetes....Pages 455-488
Manganese Transformations by Marine Bacillus Species....Pages 489-496
The Effect of Magnetotactic Bacteria on the Magnetic Properties of Marine Sediments....Pages 497-506
Silica Precipitation Induced by the Anaerobic Sulfate Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio Desulfuricans : Effects Upon Cell Morphology and Implications for Preservation....Pages 507-516
Model for Prokaryotic Calcification....Pages 517-523
Back Matter....Pages 525-536