Sea Urchin Spine Calcite Forms via a Transient Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Phase

By Yael Politi, T. Arad, E. Klein, S. Weiner, L. Addadi. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Paleontology

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In Biomaterials

1. R. Albright
2. H. Cölfen
3. H. Kurihara
4. L. Gower
5. S. Weiner
6. P. Dove
7. L. Addadi
8. L. Peck

In Biomedical Engineering

1. H. Cölfen
2. N. Sommerdijk
3. F. Meldrum
4. L. Peck
5. N. Metoki
6. Noam Eliaz
7. S. Swearer
8. Oliver R. B. Thomas

In Paleontology

1. H. Cölfen
2. L. Addadi
3. S. Weiner
4. Jillian F. Banfield
5. L. Peck
6. P. Dove
7. S. Dorozhkin
8. A. Checa

Citations in the corpus

• Reviewing the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sexual Reproduction and Early Life History Stages of Reef-Building Corals (2011, background): “ACC is 30 times more soluble than calcite [107, 108], rendering it particularly vulnerable to acidified conditions.”
• Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments (2015, background): “In certain cases, evidence comes from both nanoscale imaging and spectroscopic documentation of phases (10-12, 14, 15) (Fig.”
• Ocean acidification impacts multiple early life history processes of the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides (2011, background): “ACC is 30 times more soluble than calcite (Brecevic & Nielsen, 1989; Politi et al., 2004), rendering it particularly vulnerable to acidified conditions.”
• Bone structure and formation: A new perspective (2007, background): “The presence of a transient amorphous CaCO3 precursor phase has been detected in many species (sponge spicules [142,143], sea urchin larval spicules [144,145] and adult regenerating spines [146], mollusk larvae [147,148] and adult nacre [149]).”
• Near-future level of CO2-driven ocean acidification radically affects larval survival and development in the brittlestar Ophiothrix fragilis (2008, background): “Critically for this study, echinoderm larvae have been shown to form skeletal rods from an amorphous calcite crystal precursor, which is 30× more soluble than normal calcite (Politi et al. 2004).”
• Overview of the amorphous precursor phase strategy in biomineralization (2009, background): “It has also been demonstrated that the spine of the adult sea urchin forms via a transient ACC phase [ 27 ].”
• Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics: A Review of Their History, Structure, Properties, Coating Technologies and Biomedical Applications (2017, background): “The formation of the skeleton of sea urchin made of calcite has been reported to begin with the initial deposition of amorphous calcium carbonate [132].”