Crustacea calcification

Travis, D. F. Matrix and mineral deposition in skeletal structures of the decapod Crustacea. In Calcification in biological systems, pp. 57. Sognnaes, R. F. (ed.). Washington ... 

The rate of calcification is strongly influenced by the availability of calcium ions in the environment (for annelids, Neff, 1969 Crustacea, Greenaway, 1974a, b, c echinoderms, Okazaki, 1965). It is suggested by Porcella et al. (1969) that, in many Crustacea, calcium deposition follows first-order reaction kinetics. Thus, the rate of calcification of the exoskeleton of Daphnia magna after a moult can be described by the equation... 

Travis, D.F., 1965. The deposition of skeletal structures in the Crustacea. 5. The histo-morphological and histochemical changes associated with the development and calcification of the branchial exoskeleton in the crayfish Orconectes virilis Hagen. Acta His-tochem., 20 193—222. 

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