In memoriam: Melbourne Romaine Carriker 1915-2007

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

1968

Carriker, M. R. 1968. Biology of whole organisms. Sixth annual report on progress. Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Carriker, M. R. 1968. Research and research training on the biology of whole organisms. Systematics-Ecology Program Fifth Annual Report on Progress, September 1966-August 1967. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Carriker, M. R. & E. L. Yochelson. 1968. Recent gastropod boreholes and Ordovician cylindrical borings. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 593B:B1 B23.

Tamarin, A. & M. R. Carriker. 1968. The egg capsule of the muricid gastropod Urosalpinx cinerea: An integrated study of the wall by ordinary light, polarized light, and electron microscopy. Journal of Ultrastructure Research 21:26-40.

1969

Carriker, M. R. 1969. Biology of whole organisms--Seventh annual report on progress. Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Carriker, M. R. 1969. Excavation of boreholes by the gastropod, Urosalpinx: An analysis by light and scanning electron microscopy. American Zoologist 9:917-933.

Carriker, M. R. 1969. Marine molluscs as hosts for symbioses, with a review of known parasites of commercially important species by T. C. Cheng, Vol. 5, Advances in Marine Biology, F. S. Russell, ed. 424 pages; 100s, Academic Press, 1967. American Scientist 57:60A-61A. [Book review]

Carriker, M. R. 1969. The shell penetrating mechanism of the oyster drill Urosalpinx, a review. Proceedings of the Conference on Shellfish Culture 1968:61-68.

Carriker, M. R. & E. H. Smith. 1969. Comparative calcibiocavitology: Summary and conclusions. American Zoologist 9:1101-1020.

Carriker, M. R., E. H. Smith & R. T. Wilce (Organizers). 1969. Penetration of calcium carbonate substrates by lower plants, an international interdisciplinary symposium. American Zoologist 9:629-1020.

Carriker, M. R., C. Canning, E. W. Lovell & H. R. Lovell. 1969. Salt pond areas. Annual report, June 1968-May 1969. Leyden Press, Inc., Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Nylen, M. U., D. V. Provenza & M. R. Carriker, 1969. Fine structure of the accessory boring organ of the gastropod Urosalpinx cinerea. American Zoologist 9:935-965

Smarsh, A., H. H. Chauncey, M. R. Carriker & P. Person. 1969. Carbonic anhydrase in the accessory boring organ of the gastropod, Urosalpinx. American Zoologist 9:967-982.

Smith, E. H. & M. R. Carriker. 1969. Introduction to the symposium. American Zoologist 9:633-634.

1972

Carriker, M. R. 1972. Comments on the developmental aspects of organic matrix of molluscan shell. In: H. C. Slavkin, ed., The Comparative Molecular Biology of Extracellular Matrices. Academic Press, New York. pp. 12-16.

Carriker, M. R. 1972. Cover photograph: fracture surface along shell of Mytilus edulis showing surface texture of borehole produced by shellfish predatory Urosalpinx cinerea. Closeup 3.

Carriker, M. R. 1972. Observations on removal of spines by muricid gastropods during shell growth. The Veliger 15:69- 74.