Accommodation of the sex-ratio in eastern oysters Crassostrea virginica to variation in growth and mortality across the estuarine salinity gradient

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 533-555

  Powell, Eric N ^a   Morson, Jason M ^a   Ashton Alcox, Kathryn A ^a   Kim, Yungkul ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jackson State University   (United States)

Author keywords

age dependent; fishery bias; Keywords sex ratio; lifetime fecundity; oyster; protandry; salinity gradient; size dependent

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BIVALVE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FECUNDITY; FISHERY; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; PROTANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SALINITY; SEX RATIO; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84873555022     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315412000215     Document Type: Article

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