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Unusual Micrometric Calcite–Aragonite Interface in the Abalone Shell Haliotis (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2013

Yannicke Dauphin ,
Jean-Pierre Cuif ,
Hiram Castillo-Michel ,
Corinne Chevallard ,
Bastien Farre  and
Anders Meibom
Yannicke Dauphin*
Affiliation:
UMR 8148 IDES, bât. 504, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
Jean-Pierre Cuif
Affiliation:
UMR 8148 IDES, bât. 504, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
Hiram Castillo-Michel
Affiliation:
ID21, ESRF, BP 220, 6 rue J. Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble, France
Corinne Chevallard
Affiliation:
UMR SIS2M 3299, LIONS, CEA, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Bastien Farre
Affiliation:
UMR 8148 IDES, bât. 504, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France UMR 7327 ISTO, 1A rue de la férollerie, 45100 Orléans, France
Anders Meibom
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry, School of Architecture, ENAC, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: yannicke.dauphin@u-psud.fr
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Abstract

Species of Haliotis (abalone) show high variety in structure and mineralogy of the shell. One of the European species (Haliotis tuberculata) in particular has an unusual shell structure in which calcite and aragonite coexist at a microscale with small patches of aragonite embedded in larger calcitic zones. A detailed examination of the boundary between calcite and aragonite using analytical microscopies shows that the organic contents of calcite and aragonite differ. Moreover, changes in the chemical composition of the two minerals seem to be gradual and define a micrometric zone of transition between the two main layers. A similar transition zone has been observed between the layers in more classical and regularly structured mollusk shells. The imbrication of microscopic patches of aragonite within a calcitic zone suggests the occurrence of very fast physiological changes in these taxa.

Keywords

biomineralsmollusk shellsaragonitecalciteFTIRNanoSIMS
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Biological Applications
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 276 - 284
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2014 

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