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X-ray nanotomography of coccolithophores reveals that coccolith mass and segment number correlate with grid size.
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- Nanoscale imaging of shale fragments with coherent X-ray diffraction.Journal of applied crystallography · 2020Article
- High resolution spatial analyses of trace elements in coccoliths reveal new insights into element incorporation in coccolithophore calcite.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Synchrotron Scattering Methods for Nanomaterials and Soft Matter Research.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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Abstract
Coccolithophores of the Noëlaerhabdaceae family are covered by imbricated coccoliths, each composed of multiple calcite crystals radially distributed around the periphery of a grid. The factors that determine coccolith size remain obscure. Here, we used synchrotron-based three-dimensional Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging to study coccoliths of 7 species of Gephyrocapsa, Emiliania and Reticulofenestra with a resolution close to 30 nm. Segmentation of 45 coccoliths revealed remarkable size, mass and segment number variations, even within single coccospheres. In particular, we observed that coccolith mass correlates with grid perimeter which scales linearly with crystal number. Our results indirectly support the idea that coccolith mass is determined in the coccolith vesicle by the size of the organic base plate scale (OBPS) around which R-unit nucleation occurs every 110-120 nm. The curvation of coccoliths allows inference of a positive correlation between cell nucleus, OBPS and coccolith sizes.
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