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Viability and glycogen reserves in the newly liberated larvae of Ostrea edulis L.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Dorothy M. Collyer
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex

Extract

Samples of twelve broods of oyster larvae were subjected to a standard laboratory rearing technique while other samples were assayed for glycogen. The glycogen reserves of the larvae at liberation lay between 13·4 and 15·4% of the dry organic matter. No correlation was observed between the glycogen reserve and either the size of the larvae at liberation or the yield of spat in the rearing experiments

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957

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