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Science 14 January 1966:
Vol. 151. no. 3707, pp. 201 - 203
DOI: 10.1126/science.151.3707.201
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Calcite Deposition during Shell Repair by the Aragonitic Gastropod Murex fulvescens

E. O. Muzii 1, H. Catherine 1, and W. Skinner 1

1 Laboratory of Histology and Pathology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Shell repair was induced by coating the inner surfaces of gastropod shells with nail polish. In aragonitic gastropods initial deposition on the nail-polish membrane was of aragonite spherulites and, in one species, polygonal calcite crystals; later the normal crossed-lamellar structure of the shell was restored.

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