In memoriam: Melbourne Romaine Carriker 1915-2007

Journal of Shellfisheries Research, March, 2008 by Clement L. Counts, III, Robert S. Prezant, J. Evan Ward

Carriker, M. R., R. E. Palmer, L. V. Sick & C. C. Johnson. 1980. Interaction of mineral elements in seawater and shell of oysters [Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin)] cultured in controlled and natural systems. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 46:279-296.

Gordon, J. & M. R. Carriker. 1980. Sclerotized protein in the shell matrix of a bivalve mollusc. Marine Biology 57:251- 260.

1981

Carriker, M. R. 1981. Review: Skeletal growth of aquatic organisms: Biological records of environmental change, by D. C. Rhoads, R. A. Lutz & F. G. Stehli. The Quarterly Review of Biology 56:498-499.

Carriker, M. R. 1981. Shell penetration and feeding by naticacean and muricacean predatory gastropods: A synthesis. Malacologica 20:403-422.

Carriker, M. R. & R. E. Palmer. 1981. Ultrastructural morphogenesis of prodissoconch and early dissoconch valves of the oyster Crassostrea virginica. Philips Electron Optics Bulletin 116:15-17.

1982

Carriker, M. R. 1982. Identification of molecular binding sites for calcium in the organic matrix of molluscan shell. Defense Technical Information Center ADA11355. 19 pp.

Carriker, M. R. & J. Gordon. 1982. Identification of molecular binding sites for calcium in the organic matrix of molluscan shell. College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, CMS-01-82. i 13 pp.

Carriker, M. R., C. P. Swarm & J. W. Ewart. 1982. An exploratory study with the proton microprobe of the ontogenetic distribution of 15 elements in the shell of living oysters (Crassostrea virginica). Marble Biology 69:235-246.

Carriker, M. R., J. W. Anderson, W. P. Davis, D. R. Franz, G. F. Mayer, J. B. Pearce, T. K. Sawyer, J. H. Tietjen, J. F. Timoney & D. R. Young. 1982. Effects of pollution on benthos. In: G. F. Mayer, ed.. Ecologic stress and the New York bight: Science and management. Estuarine Research Federation (Columbia, South Carolina). pp. 3-21.

Newball, S. & M. R. Carriker. 1982. Ultrastructura de la concha Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding, 1820) de la Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia. XVII Congresso Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Tunja, Octobre 1-5.

1983

Newball, S. & M. R. Carriker. 1983. Systematic relationship of the oysters Crassostrea rhizophorae and C. virginica: A comparative ultrastructural study of the valves. American Malacologieal Bulletin 1:35-42.

Prezant, R. S. & M. R. Carriker. 1983. Functional microstructure of the lithodesma of Mytilimeria nuttalli (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata). The Veliger 25:326-328.

Rittschof, D., L. G. Williams, B. Brown & M. R. Carriker. 1983. Chemical attraction of newly hatched oyster drills. Biological Bulletin 164:493-505.

Williams, L. G., D. Rittschof, B. Brown & M. R. Carriker. 1983. Chemotaxis of oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea to competing prey odors. Biological Bulletin 164:536-548.

1984

Davis, George M., Arthur J. Cain & M. R. Carriker. 1984. Sententia. Report on courses advised for graduate students in the field of malacology. American Malacological Bulletin 2:75-76.

Jory, D. E., M. R. Carriker & E. S. Iversen. 1984. Preventing predation in molluscan mariculture: An overview. Journal of the Worm Mariculture Society 14:421-432.