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How soft corals defy their environment: Protein favors calcite formati


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Many marine organisms, including corals, build skeletons from calcium carbonate ? in the form of calcite or aragonite. The current composition of seawater favors the formation of aragonite ? but soft corals have a specific protein that allows them to form calcite skeletons instead.

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