Open AccessINFLUENCE OF HEREDITY ON LARVAL AND SPAT GROWTH IN Crassostrea virginica
Author(s) -
Losee E.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting ‐ world mariculture society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1749-7345
pISSN - 0164-0399
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1978.tb00235.x
Subject(s) - crassostrea , heritability , larva , biology , growth rate , heredity , fishery , eastern oyster , zoology , ecology , oyster , mathematics , evolutionary biology , genetics , geometry
Growth rate was measured on wild Long Island Sound stock Crassostrea virginica larvae and spat and used to calculate heritability estimates. The heritability estimates for larval growth rate ranged from 0.40 to 0.55. Heritability estimates for spat growth rate measured at 6 weeks post‐setting averaged 0.50. An analysis of relationship between larval and spat growth rates is presented in this paper.