Coastal prehistory and submerged landscapes: Molluscan resources, shell-middens and underwater investigations

Archaeology of the Continental Shelf: Marine Resources, Submerged Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

Establishing an Anthropogenic Nitrogen Baseline Using Native American Shell Middens

1 Atlantic Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, USA, 2 Economics and Environmental Sciences Departments, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA, USA, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA, 4 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, USA, 5 Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, College o...

Molluscan shell evolution with review of shell calcification hypothesis.

Biomineralization research on mollusc shells has mostly focused on nacre formation. Chitin, silk fibroin protein, and acidic macromolecules are important components for shell formation. Although the principle concept behind shell calcification was developed many years ago, the individual components have not been well scrutinized. Besides that, Mollusca are the second largest invertebrate phylum...

Comparison of aragonitic molluscan shell proteins.

Acidic macromolecules, as a nucleation factor for mollusc shell formation, are a major focus of research. It remains unclear, however, whether acidic macromolecules are present only in calcified shell organic matrices, and which acidic macromolecules are crucial for the nucleation process by binding to chitin as structural components. To clarify these questions, we applied 2D gel electrophoresi...

Mechanical properties of deep-sea molluscan shell.

Mechanical properties of deep-sea molluscan shell I. Hrabánková, J. Frýda, J. Šepitka, T. Sasaki, B. Frýdová & J. Lukeš a Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 129, Praha, Czech Republic b Czech Geological Survey, P.O.B. 85, 118 21, Prague 1, Czech Republic c Czech Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Pra...