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Zinc - a major inorganic component of nereid polychaete jaws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. W. Bryan  and
P. E. Gibbs
G. W. Bryan
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
P. E. Gibbs
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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Analyses of the jaws of nereid polychaetes have shown zinc to be a major inorganic component amounting to between 0·5 and 2·4% of the dry weight and accounting for up to 40% of the total body burden of zinc. In Nereis diversicolor, zinc concentrations in the jaws are not related to those of the habitat sediments. A high zinc content appears to be a structural characteristic of the nereid jaw.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 969 - 973
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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