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WITH the application of culture methods to the study of coccolithophorids, evidence is now accumulating1 in favour of the older hypothesis that coccoliths are formed inside the cell. This hypothesis has recently received further support from electron microscope investigations of other types of scale-bearing Chrysophyceae2. So far, however, the process of coccolith formation does not appear to have been studied by experimental means.
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PAASCHE, E. Coccolith Formation. Nature 193, 1094–1095 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931094b0
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