How annual course of photoperiod shapes seasonal behavior of diploid and triploid oysters, Crassostrea gigas.

In this work, we study if ploidy (i.e. number of copies of chromosomes) in the oyster Crassostrea gigas may introduce differences in behavior and in its synchronization by the annual photoperiod. To answer to the question about the effect of the seasonal course of the photoperiod on the behavior of...

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Main Authors: Laura Payton, Mohamedou Sow, Jean-Charles Massabuau, Pierre Ciret, Damien Tran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5636115?pdf=render