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The ultrastructure and histochemistry of the larval cement of Ostrea edulis L.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. J. Cranfield
H. J. Cranfield*
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, U.K.
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*Present address: Fisheries Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, P.O. Box 19062, Wellington, New Zealand.
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The larval cement of Ostrea edulis is formed from material secreted by the settling larva from two types of pedal gland (Cranfield, 1973b). Light microscope observations suggested that there were fibrous regions in this cement. The histochemistry and ultrastructure of the cement were therefore examined to establish the nature of this fibrous structure and to determine the part each of the two secretions might play in its formation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 497 - 503
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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