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• W1500890500 abstract "Many marine molluscs produce complex shells of calcium carbonate. These shells are formed under strict biological control to provide a range of functions to ensure the survival of the living organism. These inspiring biomineral structures can also provide an archive of environmental change via proxies such as δ18O and δ13C within the shell carbonate. However, the intimate relationship between the biological and environmental controls influencing biomineral production can often obscure the environmental signal, making it difficult to interpret environmental information from shell proxies. Understanding the design of biomineral structures will further our knowledge of biomineralisation as a whole, while understanding the controls that influence shell production will ensure that shell proxies applied to palaeoenvironmental studies are accurate. Oysters are sessile bivalve molluscs that have evolved since the Triassic and expanded to occupy a range of habitats with almost global distribution, providing an example of a highly successful biomineral system. This study investigates the ultrastructure, crystallography and stable isotope composition of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas from estuarine and marine environments. The method by which oysters adhere to hard substrates is also investigated.Both valves of the oyster shell are composed predominantly of low Mg calcite in three forms; an outer prismatic region, an inner foliated structure and chalk lenses which appear sporadically throughout the valves. Aragonite is restricted to the myostracum and parts of the hinge structure. Crystallographic analysis shows that, despite variations in structural morphology, the superimposed layers of the oyster shell maintain a single crystallographic orientation with the crystallographic c-axis orientated perpendicular to the outer shell surface. Varying crystal morphology, while maintaining crystallographic unity, may be a deliberate design to provide the oyster shell with both strength and flexibility. In general, there is no difference in the overall ultrastructure or microstructural arrangement of estuarine and marine oysters. Estuarine oysters contain significantly more chalk than marine equivalents suggesting that the appearance of chalk lenses is, to some degree, triggered by an external environmental stimulus. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of folia and chalk provides further insights into the appearance of chalk in the oyster shell structure. There is no significant difference in the isotope composition of folia or chalky layers, although patterns of δ13C and δ18O of folia and chalk reveal key differences between the two structures. Folia display a narrower range of δ18O values compared with chalk and exhibit significant interspecimen variation with respect to δ13C. Interspecimen variation, with respect to either δ18O or δ13C is absent in chalk samples. These patterns suggest that secretion of folia requires a more specific environmental stimulus and a greater input of metabolic carbon than chalk. Chalk is apparently secreted across a greater range of environmental conditions, with less metabolic regulation. Deviation from optimal environmental conditions, for example during periods of reduced salinity and/or cold or warm temperatures, may reduce metabolism causing the oyster to deliberately default from folia to chalk secretion. In general, folia and chalk in both estuarine and marine oysters is secreted in oxygen isotope equilibrium with the ambient environment.Another aspect of the oyster biomineral system is their ability to adhere tightly, and usually permanently, to a range of hard substrates by cementation of the left valve. Investigation of the contact zone between oyster shells and biological (other oyster shells) and inorganic (rock) substrates reveals the influence of both biogenic and non-biogenic processes in oyster cementation. Original adhesion is brought about by secretion of an organic adhesive which acts as a nucleating surface onto which crystals precipitate which have random orientation and are composed of high Mg calcite. The lack of orientation and elevated Mg content suggests that these crystals are nucleating outwith the biological control experienced by the shell biomineralisation process and are formed from inorganic precipitation from seawater. It is proposed that oysters do not control, or secrete, the crystalline cement but instead they secrete an organic film onto which crystals precipitate from seawater. Oysters thus provide excellent examples of both biologically induced and biologically controlled mineralisation." @default.
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• W1500890500 title "Microstructure, crystallography and stable isotope composition of Crassostrea gigas" @default.
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