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The isolation response of mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) exposed to falling sea-water concentrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

John Davenport
John Davenport
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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The salinity of the water retained within the mantle cavity of mussels after the shell valves have closed in response to falling environmental salinities is influenced by the rate of external salinity change. At high rates of salinity change the retained water salinity is significantly higher than in animals exposed to slowly changing salinities. However, the mantle fluid salinity is not primarily determined by the timing ofx shell valve adduction, but by closure of the exhalant siphon.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , February 1979 , pp. 123 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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