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Ecophenotypic plasticity in shell growth direction of asari clam Ruditapes philippinarum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2021

Takeshi Tomiyama Open the ORCID record for Takeshi Tomiyama [Opens in a new window]
Takeshi Tomiyama*
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Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima739-8528, Japan
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Author for correspondence: Takeshi Tomiyama, E-mail: tomiyama@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Asari clam (or Manila clam) Ruditapes philippinarum is an important bivalve for local fisheries. This species exhibits a large variation in shell morphology, and the shell roundness tends to be greater in more unsuitable habitats. To test whether the increments in shell size parameters (length, height and width) were affected solely by environmental conditions or by internal factors such as initial shell shapes or growth rate, a field caging experiment was conducted at two different sites of unsuitable and suitable habitats in Matsukawaura Lagoon, Japan, where shell shapes of wild clams were significantly different between the habitats. In the experiment, clams were released from the two sites to the same site or to the other site and were re-collected after 3, 6 and 12 months of caging. Caged clams originating from unsuitable habitats and released to suitable habitats showed a reduction in shell height relative to shell length, while clams from suitable habitats introduced to unsuitable habitats showed marked increases in both shell height and width. Generalized linear mixed models suggested that the increase in shell height was affected largely by the release habitat (environment) whereas the increase in shell width was affected largely by the individual growth rate. These results suggest that marginal growths in shell height and width respond differently to external and internal factors of clams, resulting in plasticity in their shell shapes according to the environments to which they are translocated.

Keywords

Coastal habitatsManila clamphenotypic plasticityshell shapetransplantation
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , May 2021 , pp. 555 - 560
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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