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Science 7 September 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4410, pp. 1020 - 1022
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4410.1020
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Tidal Vertical Migration: An Endogenous Rhythm in Estuarine Crab Larvae

THOMAS W. CRONIN 1 and RICHARD B. FORWARD JR. 1

1 Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516

Field-caught larvae of the estuarine crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii have a tidal rhythm of vertical migration when maintained in constant conditions. Laboratory-reared larvae do not show this rhythm. Endogenous tidal vertical migrations aid the retention of these planktonic larvae in estuaries near the parent populations.

Submitted on January 15, 1979
Revised on June 11, 1979


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Larval Biology of the Crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould): A Synthesis.
R. B. Forward Jr. (2009)
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