Zinc - a major inorganic component of nereid polychaete jaws
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 59 (4), 969-973
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400036961
Abstract
Analyses of the jaws of nereid polychaetes have shown zinc to be a major inorganic component amounting to between 0·5 and 2·4% of the dry weight and accounting for up to 40% of the total body burden of zinc. In Nereis diversicolor, zinc concentrations in the jaws are not related to those of the habitat sediments. A high zinc content appears to be a structural characteristic of the nereid jaw.Keywords
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