Anti-predator behaviour in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis: Byssus thread production depends on the mussel's position in clump

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 378, Issue , 2009, Pages 145-151

  Cheung, S G ^a   Yang, F Y ^a   Chiu, J M Y ^a   Liu, C C ^a   Shin, P K S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Byssusl; Clumping; Mussel; Perna viridis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION RISK; SUBSTRATE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PERNA; PERNA VIRIDIS;

EID: 63649125232     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07874     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Bell MC, Gosline JM (1997) Strategies for life in flow: tenacity, morphometry, and probability of dislodgement of two Mytilus species, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 159:197-208
2. Bertness MD, Grosholz E (1985) Population dynamics of the ribbed mussel, Geufcensia demissa: the costs and benefits of an aggregated distribution, Oecologia 67:192-204
3. Carrington E, Moeser GM, Thompson SB, Coutts LC, Craig CA (2008) Mussel, attachment on rocky shores: the effect of flow on byssus production, Integr Comp Biol 48:801-807
4. Cheung SG (1991) Energetics of transplanted populations of the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) (Bivalvia: Mytilacea) in Hong Kong, II, Integrated energy budget, Asian Mar Biol 8:133-147
5. Cheung SG, Tong PY, Yip KM, Shin PKS (2004) Chemical cues from predators and damaged conspecifics affect byssus production in the green-lipped mussel Perna viridis. Mar Freshwat Behav Physiol 37:127-135
6. Cheung SG, Luk KC, Shin PKS (2006) Predator-labeling effect on byssus production in marine mussels Perna viridis (L,) and Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss). J Chem Ecol. 32:1501-1512
7. Chivers DP, Wisenden BD, Smith RJF (1995) The role of experience in the response of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to skin extract of Iowa darters (Etheostoma exile). Behaviour 132:665-674
8. Côte IM (1995) Effects of predatory crab effluents on byssus production in mussels. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 188:233-241
9. Côte IM, Jelnikar E (1999) Predator-induced clumping behaviour in mussels (Mytilus edulis Linnaeus). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 235:201-211
10. Fässler SMM, Kaiser MJ (2008) Phylogenetically mediated anti-predator responses in bivalve molluscs. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 363:217-225
11. Frechette M, Aitken AE, Page L (1992) Interdependence of food and space limitation of a benthic suspension feeder: consequences for self-thinning relationships. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 83:55-62
12. Griffiths CL, King JA (1979) Energy expended on growth and gonad output in the ribbed mussel. Aulacomya ater. Mar Biol 53:217-222
13. Hagen N, Andersen Å, Stabell. OB (2002) Alarm responses of the green sea. urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, induced by chemically labelled durophagous predators and simulated acts of prédation. Mar Biol 140:365-374
14. Harger JRE (1970) Comparisons among growth characteristics of two species of sea mussel, Mytilus edulis and Mytilus californianus. Veliger 13:44-56
15. Harvell CD (1990) The ecology and evolution of inducible defences, Q Rev Biol 65:323-340
16. Hawkins AJS, Bayne BL (1985) Seasonal variation in the relative utilization of carbon and nitrogen by the mussel Mytilus edulis: budgets, conversion efficiencies and maintenance requirements, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 25:181-188
17. Hazlett BA, McLay C (2005) Responses of the crab Heterozius rotundifrons to heterospecific chemical, alarm, cues: phytogeny vs, ecological overlap, J Chem Ecol 31:671-677
18. Huang D, Todd PA, Guest JR (2007) Movement and aggregation in the fluted giant clam (Tridacna squamosa L,). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 342:269-281
19. Hughes RN, Seed R (1995) Behavioural mechanisms of prey selection in crabs. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 193:225-238
20. Ishida S, Iwasaki K (2003) Reduced byssal thread production and movement by the intertidal mussel Hormomya mutabilis in response to effluent from predators. J Ethol 21: 117-122
21. Jackson JBC (1977) Competition on marine hard substrata: the adaptive significance of solitary and colonial strategies. Am Nat 111:743-767
22. Kats LB, Dill LM (1998) The scent of death: chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals. Ecoscience 5:361-394
23. Leonard GH, Bertness MD, Yund PO (1999) Crab predation, waterborne cues, and inducible defences in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. Ecology 80:1-14
24. Lima SL (1998) Non-lethal effects in the ecology of predatorprey interactions, Bioscience 48:25-34 Lima SL, Dill LM (1990) Behavioural decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus, Can J Zool 68:619-640
25. Lin J (1991) Predator-prey interactions between blue crabs and ribbed mussels living in clumps, Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 32:61-69
26. Magurran AE (1989) Acquired recognition of predator odour in the European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus). Ethology 82:216-223
27. Nicastro KR, Zardi GI, McQuaid CD (2007) Behavioural response of invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis and indigenous Perna perna mussels exposed to risk of prédation, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 336:169-175
28. Okamura B (1986) Group living and the effects of spatial, position in aggregations of Mytilus edulis. Oecologia 69: 341-347
29. Reimer O, Tedengren M (1997) Predator-induced changes in byssal attachment, aggregation and migration in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. Mar Freshwat Behav Physiol 30: 251-266
30. Shin PKS, Liu CC, Liu ZX, Cheung SG (2008) Marine mussels Brachidontes variabilis selected smaller places of refuge and enhanced byssus production upon exposure to conspecifics and heterospecifics cues, J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 361: 16-20
31. Smee DL, Weissburg MJ (2006) Hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) evaluate prédation risk using chemical, signals from, predators and injured conspecifics. J Chem Ecol. 32: 605-619
32. Smee DL, Weissburg MJ (2008) Heightened prey responses in risky habitats: predator pressure increases prey sensitivity to predator risk. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 363:39-50
33. Stiven AE, Gardner SA (1992) Population processes in the ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn) in a North Carolina salt marsh tidal gradient: spatial pattern, predation, growth and mortality. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 160:81-102
34. Suchánek TH (1978) The ecology of Mytilus edulis L. in exposed rocky intertidal communities. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 31: 105-120
35. Svane I, Ompi M (1993) Patch dynamics in the beds of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis: effect of site, patch size and position within a patch, Ophelia 37:187-202
36. Wisenden BD (2000) Olfactory assessment of predation risk in the aquatic environment, Philos Trans R Soc Lond 355:1205-1208
37. Zar JH (1999) Biostatistical analysis, 4th edn, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs; NJ
38. Zardi GI, Nicastro KR, McQuaid CD, Rius M, Porri F (2006) Hydrodynamic stress and habitat partitioning between indigenous (Perna perna) and invasive (Mytilus galloprovincialis) mussels: constraints of an evolutionary strategy, Mar Biol 150:79-88