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Sex change in the oviparous Indian backwater oyster, Ostrea madrasensis Preston

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Title Sex change in the oviparous Indian backwater oyster, Ostrea madrasensis Preston
 
Creator Rao, K Virabhadra
 
Subject Edible oyster
 
Description The adult larviparous oysters are always hermaphrodite
whereas the oviparous ones are of
separate sexes. Following the discovery of a
single hermaphrodite individual in one species
of oviparous oyster by Kellog,a other workers,
viz., Burkenroad,4 Loosanoff,() Amemiya.1,2
Awati and RaP and RoughleyB have observed
occasional change of sex in the American oyster.
 
Date 1953
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6900/1/035-CURRENT_SCIENCE.pdf
Rao, K Virabhadra (1953) Sex change in the oviparous Indian backwater oyster, Ostrea madrasensis Preston. Current Science, 22 (12). pp. 377-378.