The isolation response of mussels (Mytilus edulisL.) exposed to falling sea-water concentrations
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 59 (1) , 123-132
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400046221
Abstract
The salinity of the water retained within the mantle cavity of mussels after the shell valves have closed in response to falling environmental salinities is influenced by the rate of external salinity change. At high rates of salinity change the retained water salinity is significantly higher than in animals exposed to slowly changing salinities. However, the mantle fluid salinity is not primarily determined by the timing ofx shell valve adduction, but by closure of the exhalant siphon.Keywords
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