Spicule formation in the New Zealand ascidian Pyura pachydermatina (Chordata, Ascidiacea)

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 25-31

  Lambert, Gretchen ^a   Lambert, Charles C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Calcein; Calcite; Calcium carbonate; Tunicate

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843141632     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Lowenstam, H. A. and Weiner, S. (1989). On Biomineralization. NY: Oxford.
2. Weiner, S. and Addadi, L. (1991). Acidic macromolecules of mineralized tissues: the controllers of crystal formation, TIBS, 16, 252-256.
3. Goldberg, W. M. (1988). Chemistry, histochemistry and microscopy of the organic matrix of spicules from a gorgonian coral: relationship to Alcian blue staining and calcium binding, Histochemistry, 89, 163-170.
4. Märkel, K., Roser, U. and Stauber, M. (1989). On the ultrastructure and the supposed function of the mineralizing matrix coat of sea urchins (Echinodermata, Echinoida), Zoomorphology, 109, 79-87.
5. Aizenberg, J., Lambert, G., Addadi, L. and Weiner, S. (1996). Stabilization of amorphous calcium carbonate by specialized macromolecules in biological and synthetic precipitates. Advanced Materials, 8, 222-226.
6. Berrill, N. J. (1950). The Tunicata. London: Ray Soc. 354 pp.
7. Smith, M. J. and Dehnel, P. A. (1971). The composition of tunic from four species of ascidians, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 40B, 615-622.
8. Lambert, G. (1992). Ultrastructural aspects of spicule formation in the solitary ascidian Herdmania momus (Urochordata, Ascidiacea), Acta. Zool., 73, 237-245.
9. Lambert, G. and Lambert, C. C. (1996). Extracellular formation of body and tunic spicules in the New Zealand solitary ascidian Pyura pachydermatina (Urochordata, Ascidiacea). Acta. Zool. In press.
10. Lambert, G., Lambert, C. C. and Lowenstam, H. A. (1990). "Protochordate biomineralization." In: Skeletal Biomineralization: Patterns. Processes and Evolutionary Trends Vol. 1, edited by J. G. Carter, 461-469. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
11. Monniot, C. (1965). Etude systematique et evolutive de la famille des Pyuridae (Ascidiacea). Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Paris, 1-203.
12. Lowenstam, H. A. (1989). Spicular morphology and mineralogy in some Pyuridae (Ascidiacea), Bull. Mar. Sci., 45, 243-252.
13. Lowenstam, H. A. and Abbott, D. P. (1975). Vaterite: a mineralization product of the hard tissues of a marine organism (Ascidiacea), Science, 188, 363-365.
14. Lambert, G. and Lambert, C. C. (1987). Spicule formation in the solitary ascidian, Herdmania momus. J. Morph., 192, 145-159.
15. Rowley, R. J. and MacKinnon, D. I. (1995). "Use of the fluorescent marker calcein in biomineralisation studies of brachiopods and other marine organisms." In: Biomineralization 93: 7th Intl. Symposium on Biomineralization Vol. 2, edited by D. Allemand and J.-P. Cuif. Bull. Inst. Oceanogr. Monaco, numero special 14(2): 111-120.
16. Lambert, G. (1979). Early post-metamorphic growth, budding and spicule formation in the compound ascidian Cystodytes lobatus. Biol. Bull., 157, 464-477.
17. Goldberg, W. M. and Benayahu, Y. (1987). Spicule formation in the gorgonian coral Pseudoplexaura flagellosa 1: Demonstration of intracellular and extracellular growth and the effect of ruthenium red during decalcification, Bull. Mar. Sci., 40, 287-303.
18. Koehl, M. A. R. (1982). Mechanical design of spicule-reinforced connective tissue: stiffness. J. Exp. Biol., 98, 239-267.
19. Lewis, J. C. and Von Wallis, E. (1991). The function of surface sclerites in gorgonians (Coelenterata, Octocorallia), Biol. Bull., 181, 275-288.