Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 17 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3703, pp. 1619 - 1621
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3703.1619
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Sex Conversion Induced by Hydrostatic Pressure in the Marine Copepod Tigriopus californicus

Victor D. Vacquier 1 and William L. Belser 1

1 Department of Marine Genetics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

High hydrostatic pressure applied to the naupliar larval stages of the marine copepod Tigriopus californicus converts some individuals that would have become males into females. The copepodid stages are not sensitive to pressureinduced conversion.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Sex ratios, intersexuality and sex change in copepods.
L. F. M. Gusmao and A. D. McKinnon (2009)
J. Plankton Res. 31, 1101-1117
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Effect of temperature on development, growth and reproduction in the marine copepod Pseudocalanus newmani at satiating food condition.
H.-W. Lee, S. Ban, T. Ikeda, and T. Matsuishi (2003)
J. Plankton Res. 25, 261-271
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)