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Age and Growth of the Sea Urchin Sphaerechinus Granularis in Southern Brittany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. Jordana ,
M. Guillou  and
L.J.L. Lumingas
E. Jordana
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Biology (Invertebrates), Faculty of Biology, 64588 Diagonal Avenida, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
M. Guillou
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 6539, Laboratoire Flux de Matières et Réponses du Vivant, Institut Européen d'Etudes Marines, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6 Avenue Victor le Gorgeu, BP 809, 29285 Brest Cedex, France.
L.J.L. Lumingas
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 6539, Laboratoire Flux de Matières et Réponses du Vivant, Institut Européen d'Etudes Marines, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6 Avenue Victor le Gorgeu, BP 809, 29285 Brest Cedex, France.
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Growth of the echinoid Sphaerechinus granularis from the Gleiian Islands (Brittany, France) was studied by analysis of growth zones in longitudinal cross-sections of interambulacral oral plates. The diameter-at-age data pairs were increased using a back-calculation technique, which allows for a more efficient estimation of von Bertalanffy growth curve parameters. The annual value of the skeletal growth marks agreed with the analysis of the population's size-frequency distributions taken from a previous study. Significant differences in growth and morphological parameters were observed between two populations of the archipelago in close geographical proximity and inhabiting the same type of substratum. These differences, which appear as population phenotypic responses to different hydrodynamic conditions, confirms growth plasticity in S. granularis.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , November 1997 , pp. 1199 - 1212
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

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