Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say)
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Williams, LG; Rittschof, D; Wood, L; Carriker, MR
1982
The eastern oyster drill U. cinerea is a shell-boring snail that preys upon numerous species of sessile, shelled, and encrusting invertebrates. Newly hatched, nascent snails were used to develop a powerful bioassay for chemotactic orientation to prey. Specificity of chemotaxis was tested by assaying the response to 25 species of marine invertebrates and fish. Only balanoid barnacles and a mixture of two bryozoan species produced and effluent that was highly attractive to nascent snails. Oysters (Crassostrea virginica ) produced an effluent that was only weakly attractive, evoking at most a 20% response. The mussel Mytilus edulis , commonly preyed upon in nature, did not evoke a significant response.
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Publication Date
1982
Volume
2
Start / End Page
123
Location
Univ. Delaware, Coll. Mar. Stud., Lewes, DE 19958, USA
Conference Name
Journal of Shellfish Research
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Williams, L. G., Rittschof, D., Wood, L., & Carriker, M. R. (1982). Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say) (Vol. 2, p. 123). Presented at the Journal of Shellfish Research, Univ. Delaware, Coll. Mar. Stud., Lewes, DE 19958, USA.
Williams, L. G., D. Rittschof, L. Wood, and M. R. Carriker. “Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say),” 2:123, 1982.
Williams LG, Rittschof D, Wood L, Carriker MR. Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say). In 1982. p. 123.
Williams, L. G., et al. Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say). Vol. 2, 1982, p. 123.
Williams LG, Rittschof D, Wood L, Carriker MR. Chemotactic orientation to prey by the Atlantic oyster drills Urosalpinx cinerea (Say). 1982. p. 123.
Publication Date
1982
Volume
2
Start / End Page
123
Location
Univ. Delaware, Coll. Mar. Stud., Lewes, DE 19958, USA
Conference Name
Journal of Shellfish Research