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Turning Blood Cells into Oyster Shells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
*
stephen.carmichael@mayo.edu

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The general consensus has been that the shells of mollusks form outside of cells. Akin to bone formation in vertebrates, an organic matrix is secreted by cells and the inorganic material is deposited within this matrix in an organized way. Andrew Mount, A.P. (Hap) Wheeler, Rajesh Paradkar, and Dennis Snider have now found convincing evidence that blood cells (specifically a class of granulocytic hemocytes) may be directly involved in shell crystal production for oysters.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 3 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2005

Footnotes

1

The author gratefully acknowledges Dr. Andrew Mount for reviewing this article.

References

2 Mount, A.S., A.P. Wheeler, R.P. Paradkar, and D. Snider, Hemocyte-mediated shell mineralization in the eastern oyster, Science 304:297-300, 2004.