Contents of Volume 15, Number 3

Gary H. Wikfors
Honored Life Member: Robert R. L. Guillard, pp. 533-534

Kim J.Friedman and Johann D. Bell
Effects of different substrata and protective mesh bags on collection of spat of the pearl oysters, Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) and Pinctada maculata (Gould, 1850), pp. 535-541

William S. Fisher, James T. Winstead, Leah M. Oliver, H. Lee Edmiston and George 0. Bailey
Physiologic variability of eastern oysters from Apalachicola Bay, Florida, pp. 543-553

William S. Fisher, Leah M. Oliver and Patrice Edwards
Hematologic and serologic variability of eastern oysters from Apalachicola Bay, Florida, pp. 555-564

Herbert M. Austin, David Evans and Dexter S. Haven
A retrospective time series analysis of oyster, Crassostrea virginica, recruitment (1946-1993), pp. 565-582

Diane J. Brousseau
Epizootiology of the parasite, Perkinsus marinus (Denno) in intertidal oyster populations from Long Island Sound, pp. 583-587

Emily Y. Chang, Steven L. Coon, Marianne Walch and Ronald Weiner
Effects of Hyphomonas PM- I biofilms on the toxicity of copper and zinc to Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea virginica
larval set, pp. 589-595

Carolyn S. Friedman
Haplosporidian infections of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg), in California and Japan, pp. 597-600

Oscar Arizpe C.
Secondary production, growth and survival of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg) in tropical waters, Bahia de La Paz, Mexico, pp. 601-607

Caleb Gardner, Greg B. Maguire and Greg N. Kent
Studies on triploid oysters in Australia. VII. Assessment of two methods for determining triploidy in oysters: adductor muscle diameter and nuclear size, pp. 609-615

A. G. Jeffs, R. G. Creese and S. H. Hooker
Annual pattern of brooding in populations of Chilean oysters, Tiostrea chilensis, (Philippi, 1845) from northern New Zealand, pp. 617-622

Gisele Signoret-Brailovsky, Alfonso N. Maeda-Martinez, Teodoro Reynoso-Granados, Ernesto Soto-Galera, Pablo Monsalvo-Spencer and Gabriela Valle-Meza
Salinity tolerance of the catarina scallop Argopecten ventricosus-circularis (Sowerby II, 1835), pp. 623-626

Michael P. Heasman, Wayne A. O'Connor and Allen W. J. Frazer
Ontogenetic changes in optimal rearing temperatures for the commercial scallop, Pecten fumatus Reeve, pp. 627-634

Yantian T. Lu and Norman J. Blake
Optimum concentrations of Isochrysis galbana for growth of larval and juvenile bay scallops, Argopecten irradians
concentricus (Say), pp. 635-643

C. Rios, J. Canales and J. B. Pefia
Genotype-dependent spawning: evidence from a wild population of Pecten jacobaeus (L.) (Bivalvia: Pectinidae), pp. 645-651

N. K. Stepto and P. A. Cook
Feeding preferences of the juvenile South African abalone Haliotis midde (Linnaeus, 1758), pp. 653-657

G. P. Hawkes, R. W. Day, M. W. Wallace, K. W. Nugent, A. A. Bettiol, D. N. Jamieson and M. C. Williams
Analyzing the growth and form of mollusc shell layers, in situ, by cathodoluminescence microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, pp. 659-666

Jorge Caceres-Martinez, Rebeca Vasquez-Yeomans and Eduardo Suarez Morales
Two parasitic copepods, Pseudomyicola spinosus and Modiolicola gracifis, associated with edible mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis and Mytilus californianus, from Baja California, NW Mexico, pp. 667-672

J. I. P. Iglesias, A. Pirez Camacho, E. Navarro, U. Labarta, R. Beiras, A. J. S. Hawkins and J. Widdows
Microgeographic variability in feeding, absorption, and condition of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lmk.): a transplant experiment, pp. 673-680

Cameron P. Goater and Amy W. Weber
Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of Mytilicola orientalis (Copepoda) in the mussel, Mytilus trossulus, in Barkley Sound, B.C., pp. 681-684

Paul A. Haefner, Jr., Becky Sheppard, Julie Barto, Erin McNeil and Vanessa Cappellino
Application of ultrasound technology to molluscan physiology: noninvasive monitoring of cardiac rate in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758, pp. 685-687

Arnold G. Eversole, Christopher J. Kempton, Nancy H. Hadley and William R. Buzzi
Comparison of growth, survival, and reproductive success of diploid and triploid Mercenaria mercenaria, pp. 689-694

Stephen J. Kleinschuster, Jason Parent, Charles W. Walker and C. Austin Farley
A cardiac cell line from Mya arenaria (Linnaeus, 1759), pp. 695-707

Dan C. Marelli and William S. Arnold
Growth and mortality of transplanted juvenile hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, in the northern Indian River lagoon, Florida, pp. 709-713

Dorset H. Hurley and Randal L. Walker
The effects of larval stocking density on growth, survival, and development of laboratory-reared Spisula solidissima similis (Say, 1822), pp. 715-718

H.-Jorg Urban
Population dynamics of the bivalves Venus antiqua, Tagelus dombeii, and Ensis macha from Chile
at 36^oS, pp. 719-727

Gudrun G. Thorarinsdottir and Gardar Johannesson
Shell length-meat weight relationships of ocean quahog, Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767), from Icelandic waters, pp. 729-733

Lincoln MacKenzie, David White and Janet Adamson
Temporal variation and tissue localization of paralytic shellfish toxins in the New Zealand tuatua (surfclam), Paphies subtriangulata, pp. 735-740

Marcial Villalejo-Fuerte, Bertha Patricia Ceballos-Vazquez and Federico Garcia-Doininguez
Reproductive cycle of Laevicardium elatum (Sowerby, 1833) (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) in Bahia Concepcion, Baja
California Sur, Mexico, pp. 741-745

Joseph Biss III, Franck H. Laruelle and Daniel P. Molloy
Use of sieves for the rapid size selection of Dreissena polymorpha samples, pp. 747-750

George R. Abbe and Cluney Stagg
Trends in blue crab (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun) catches near Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, from 1968 to 1995 and their relationship to the Maryland commercial fishery, pp. 751-758

Hui Liu and James W. Avault, Jr.
Effect of nitrite on growth of juvenile red swamp crawfish, Procambarus clarkii, pp. 759-761

Donna G. Ingle and Robert M. Ingle
Notes on the blue crab fishery in the Apalachicola, Florida estuary, pp. 763-768

Elizabeth Wenner, H. Randall Beatty and Loren Coen
A method for quantitatively sampling nekton on intertidal oyster reefs, pp. 769-775

T. J. Morris and A. Campbell
Growth of juvenile red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) fed Zostera marina or Nereocystis luetkeana, pp. 777-780

Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Oyster Growers Association and National Shellfisheries Association, September 22-24, 1996, Lake Chelan, Washington, pp. 781-789