This week’s issue of Dalton Transactions contains an excellent review from Ann Valentine, of Yale University.
Her perspective article focuses on the how the ascidians, which are marine invertebrates commonly known as sea squirts, control how metals like vanadium, titanium and iron react in water.
The sea squirts are amazing creatures that have an unparalleled ability to keep high concentrations of vanadium in their cells, and are an excellent way of studying biological control over inorganic coordination chemistry.
Read the full review to find out more about these fascinating organisms…
The challenges of trafficking hydrolysis prone metals and ascidians as an archetype
Jean P. Gaffney and Ann M. Valentine
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 5827-5835
Want to know more about sea squirts? Look at the Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.
