THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SKELETON FORMATION IN CORALS. I. A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE RATE OF CALCIUM DEPOSITION BY CORALS UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS
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- 1 February 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 116 (1), 59-75
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539156
Abstract
Radioactive Ca45 is used as a tracer in experiments performed on pieces of healthy colonies of 6 West Indian and 4 Indo-Pacific stony corals, and 1 coralline alga. Different parts of a colony deposit calcium at different rates. In darkness lime is deposited 2-3 times faster than in light, in forms where zooanthellae are present; where these have been removed there is a lowering of the rate. The calcium uptake is also reduced in the presence of Diamox, a specific carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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