Most Recent Articles from Journal of Shellfisheries Research

• Growth of cultured pearl oyster in Li'an Lagoon, Hainan Island, China 

  ABSTRACT Growth of pearl oysters, Pinctada martensii was studied from June 2003 to March 2005 in Li'an Lagoon of Hainan Island in China. Shell...

  08/01/09 by Gu Zhifeng; Wang Qingyin; Fang Jianguang; Ye Naihao; Mao Yuze; Shi Yaohua; Wang Yan; Wang Aimin · More from publication

• Development and validation of a real-time quantitative PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Perkinsus marinus in the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica 

  ABSTRACT Perkinus marinus causes a devastating disease, known as Dermo, in the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Routine detection of the...

  08/01/09 by Jacquelin De Faveri; Roxanna M. Smolowitz; Steven B. Roberts · More from publication

• Laboratory hybridization between Crassostrea ariakensis and C. sikamea 

  ABSTRACT To understand possible reproductive interaction between Crassostrea ariakensis (Fujita, 1913) and C. sikamea (Amemiya, 1928), which...

  08/01/09 by Fei Xu; Guofan Zhang; Xiao Liu; Shoudu Zhang; Bin Shi; Ximing Guo · More from publication

• Spatial patterns of wild oysters in the Hawkesbury River, NSW, Australia 

  ABSTRACT The native Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, is under increasing threat from QX disease, competition with nonnative Crassostrea...

  08/01/09 by Stephen A. Summerhayes; Brendan P. Kelaher; Melanie J. Bishop · More from publication

• Seasonal variation of physiological parameters in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica from a tropical region of the Gulf of Mexico 

  ABSTRACT Natural variation in the physiological variables of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica from a tropical climate have until now been...

  08/01/09 by M. Gullian; L. Aguirre-Macedo · More from publication

• Early larval development of the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata under near-future predictions of C[O.sup.2]-driven ocean acidification 

  ABSTRACT Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation are rapidly increasing the atmospheric...

  08/01/09 by Sue-Ann Watson; Paul C. Southgate; Paul A. Tyler; Lloyd S. Peck · More from publication

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