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Control of the Reproductive Cycle in Female Eulalia Viridis (Polychaeta: Phyllodocidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. J. W. Olive
P. J. W. Olive
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, North Shields, Tyne and Wear
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Eulalia viridis (L.) is one of a group of polychaete species which are being used in an experimental analysis of the regulation of gametogenesis and reproduction. The back-ground to these studies and some of the preliminary results have been discussed recently by Olive (1980). Despite the abundant data demonstrating the frequent occurrence of well-defined reproductive cycles in marine invertebrates and observations on the correlations between reproductive events and environmental conditions, the mechanisms by which the reproductive cycles of individual species are controlled are very poorly understood. It has generally been accepted since the publication of the important paper of Orton (1920) that the temperature cycle in temperate and boreal regions plays an important role in determining the reproductive cycle, but the nature of the control mechanism is not, in general, understood and is likely to vary markedly between species. Environ-mental conditions such as relative daylength or biological factors such as the quantity and identity of the phytoplankton organisms (Himmelman, 1978, 1979) could also play important roles in regulating the sequence of cellular events which culminates in successful reproduction. These general problems have been discussed by Giese (1959) and more recently by Barnes (1975), Giese & Pearse (1975) and specifically in relation to Polychaeta by Clark (1979) and Olive (1980).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , November 1981 , pp. 941 - 958
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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