Sentences with phrase «secrete shell material»
Acidifying the ocean is particularly detrimental to organisms that secrete shell material made of CaCO3, such as coral reefs and a type of phytoplankton called coccolithophorids [Kleypas et al., 1999].
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The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell.
The material that makes up pteropod shells is aragonite, a common mineral form of calcium carbonate, which is also secreted by other marine organisms to form external skeletal material.