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SUBMITTER: Sevilgen DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357752 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sevilgen Duygu S DS Venn Alexander A AA Hu Marian Y MY Tambutté Eric E de Beer Dirk D Planas-Bielsa Víctor V Tambutté Sylvie S
Science advances 20190116 1
Reef-building corals form their calcium carbonate skeletons within an extracellular calcifying medium (ECM). Despite the critical role of the ECM in coral calcification, ECM carbonate chemistry is poorly constrained in vivo, and full ECM carbonate chemistry has never been characterized based solely on direct in vivo measurements. Here, we measure pH<sub>ECM</sub> in the growing edge of <i>Stylophora pistillata</i> by simultaneously using microsensors and the fluorescent dye SNARF-1, showing that ...[more]