Feeding behavior and metabolic efficiency contribute to growth heterosis in Pacific oysters

Bayne, B. L., D. Hedgecock, D. McGoldrick, and R. Rees. 1999. Feeding behavior and metabolic efficiency contribute to growth heterosis in Pacific oysters [Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg)]. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 233:115-130.

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Physiological bases of genetically determined variation in growth of marine invertebrate larvae: A study of growth heterosis in the bivalve Crassostrea gigas

Pace, D. A., A. G. Marsh, P. Leong, A. Green, D. Hedgecock, and D. T. Manahan. 2006. Physiological bases of genetically determined variation in growth of marine invertebrate larvae: A study of growth heterosis in the bivalve Crassostrea gigas. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 335:188-209.

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Separating the nature and nurture of energy allocation in response to global change

Applebaum, S.L., T.-C.F. Pan, D. Hedgecock and D.T. Manahan. 2014. Separating the nature and nurture of energy allocation in response to global change. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54:284-295.

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Metabolic Costs of Calcification in Bivalve Larvae under Experimental Ocean Acidification

Frieder, C.A., S.L. Applebaum, T.-C. Francis Pan, D. Hedgecock and D. T. Manahan. 2017. Metabolic costs of calcification in bivalve larvae under experimental ocean acidification. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74: 941-954.

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Gametic incompatibility and genetic divergence of Pacific and Kumamoto oysters, Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea sikamea

Banks, M.A., D.J. McGoldrick and D. Hedgecock. 1994. Gametic incompatibility and genetic divergence of Pacific and Kumamoto oysters, Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea sikamea. Marine Biology 121:127-135.

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The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the northern Ariake Sea, Japan

Camara, M. D., J. P. Davis, M. Sekino, D. Hedgecock, G. Li, C. J. Langdon, and S. Evans. 2008. The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the northern Ariake Sea, Japan. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:313-322.

This paper gives the results of an expedition to Japan to find and return stocks of the Kumamoto oyster. The acknowledgements section thanks Sam King, a Pacific Hybreed investor, for a generous gift to the University of Southern California for travel costs for D. H. and subsequent analysis of calmodulin gene sequences.

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Fixation, segregation and linkage of allozyme loci in inbred families of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg):

McGoldrick, D. J., and D. Hedgecock. 1997. Fixation, segregation and linkage of allozyme loci in inbred families of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg): Implications for the causes of inbreeding depression. Genetics 146:321-334.

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