The opening response of mussels (Mytilus edulis) exposed to rising sea-water concentrations
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 61 (3) , 667-678
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400048116
Abstract
When exposed to water of low salinity specimens of Mytilus edulis L. keep their shell valves tightly closed; they do not gape periodically to test the external medium. Exchange of salts and water between the mantle cavity and the environment is thus minimized. Rising salinities are registered by diffusion of salts to the tentaculate portion of the inhalent siphon and not to any other portion of the mantle edge or to any more deeply located structures.Keywords
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