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The attractive factor in the settlement of Ophelia bicornis Savigny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Douglas P. Wilson
Douglas P. Wilson
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
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Largely as a result of experiments made in 1951, sands were classed as attractive, neutral or repellent (Wilson, 1953 a); but only after the 1952 experiments had been completed did it become reasonably certain that the sands in which the larvae of Ophelia bicornis Savigny readily settle carry an attractive factor apparently distinct from a repellent one present in sands in which they will not settle (Wilson, 1953 b). Whilst the precise natures of the factors were uncertain, it seemed probable that they both derive from organic activity. The 1953 breeding season was devoted to an attempt to obtain more information about the attractive factor.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1954 , pp. 361 - 380
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1954

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