CONTENTS of Volume 18, Number 1

IN MEMORIAM
L. Eugene Cronin (1917-1998), pp. 1-3

IN MEMORIAM
Terrance Henry Butler (1923-1998), pp. 5-7

Juliana M. Harding and Roger Mann
Observations on the biology of the veined rapa whelk, Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846) in the Chesapeake Bay, pp. 9-17

Ximing Guo, Susan E. Ford, and Fusui Zhang
Molluscan aquaculture in China, pp. 19-31

Sergio Curiel Ramirez and Jorge Caceres-Martinez
Settlement of the blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck on artificial substrates in Bahia de Todos Santos B.C., Mexico, pp. 33-39

G. Martinez, C. Aguilera, and E. O. Campos
Induction of settlement and metamorphosis of the scallop Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck by excess K⁺ and epinephrine: Energetic costs, pp. 41-46

Stephen T. Tettelbach, Christopher F. Smith, Roxanna Smolowitz, Kim Tetrault, and Sandra Dumais
Evidence for fall spawning of northern bay scallops Argopecten irradians irradians (Lamarck 1819) in New York, pp. 47-58

Julie A. Maguire, Pierre G. Fleury, and Gavin M. Burnell
Some methods for quantifying quality in the scallop Pecten maximus (L.), pp. 59-66

Mohsin U. Patwary, Michael Reith, and Ellen L Kenchington
Cloning and characterization of tropomyosin cDNAs from the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791), pp. 67-70

Hongsheng Yang, Tao Zhang, Jian Wang, Ping Wang, Yichao He, and Fusui Zhang
Growth characteristics of Chlamys farreri and its relation with environmental factors in intensive raft-culture areas of Sishiliwan Bay, Yantai, pp. 71-76

Eva M. Fernandez, Junda Lin, and John Scarpa
Culture of Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus): Effects of density, predator exclusion device, and bag inversion, pp. 77-83

Jorge Caceres-Martinez, Gissel Dalila Tinoco, Marco Linne Unzueta Bustamante, and Ignacio Mendez Gomez-Humaran
Relationship between the burrowing worm Polydora sp. and the black clam Chione fluctifraga Showerby, pp. 85-89

Lourdes Lopez-Cortes, Antonio Luque, Eduardo Martinez-Manzanares, Dolores Castro, and Juan J. Borrego
Adhesion of Vibrio tapetis to clam cells, pp. 91-97

Carrie J. Deming and Michael P. Russell
Assessing manipulations of larval density and culling in hatchery production of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria , pp. 99-105

Erick E. Bataller, Andrew D. Boghen, and Michael D. B. Burt
Comparative growth of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) reared at low and high salinities in New Brunswick, Canada, pp. 107-114

Q. Zhang, G. Yu, R. K. Cooper, and T. R. Tiersch
High-resolution analysis of karyotypes prepared from different tissues of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica , pp. 115-120

Beth M. Hirschfeld, Arun K. Dhar, Karl Rask, and Acacia Alcivar-Warren
Genetic diversity in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) from Massachusetts using the RAPD technique, pp. 121-125

J. Cigarria
Effects of age, size, and season on growth of soft tissue in the oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793), pp. 127-131

Marianne Walch, Ronald M. Weiner, Rita R.Colwell, and Steven L. Coon
Use of L-DOPA and soluble bacteria products to improve set of Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) and C. gigas (Thunberg, 1793), pp. 133-138

Maria Jose Almeida, Jorge Machado, and Joao Coimbra
Growth and biochemical composition of Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg) and Ostrea edulis (Linne) in two estuaries from the north of Portugal, pp. 139-146

Laureana Rebordinos, Pedro Garcia, and Jesus M. Cantoral
Founder effect, genetic variability, and weight in the cultivated Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata , pp. 147-153

Cesar J. Lodeiros, Jose Jesus Rengel, and John H. Himmelman
Growth of Pteria colymbus (Roding, 1798) in suspended culture in Golfo de Cariaco, Venezuela, pp. 155-158

Kim J. Friedman and Paul C. Southgate
Growout of blacklip pearl oysters, Pinctada margaritifera collected as wild spat in the Solomon Islands, pp. 159-167

Inke Sunila, John Karolus, and John Volk
A new epizootic of Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX), a Haplosporidian oyster parasite, in Long Island Sound, Connecticut, pp. 169-174

Nicole T. Brun, Andrew D. Boghen, and Jacques Allard
Distribution of the turbellarian Urastoma cyprinae on the gills of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica , pp. 175-179

Marcial Villalejo-Fuerte, Bertha Patricia Ceballos- Vazquez, Marcial Arellano-Martinez, and Federico Garcia-Dominguez
Fecundity of the velvet spidercrab Stenocionops ovata (Bell, 1835) (Brachyura: Majidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico, pp. 181-183

Yimin Ye, J. M. Bishop, H. Mohammed, and A. H. Alsaffar
Development of a recruitment index for forecasting seasonal landings of the Kuwait shrimp fisheries, pp. 185-192

W. Hunning Howell, Winsor H. Watson, III, and Steven H. Jury
Skewed sex ratio in an estuarine lobster (Homarus americanus) population, pp. 193-201

Dario Andrinolo, Norma Santinelli, Silvia Otano, Viviana Sastre, and Nistor Lagos
Paralytic shellfish toxins in mussels and Alexandrium tamarense at Valdes Peninsula, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina: Kinetics of a natural depuration, pp. 203-209

Patrick Lassus, Michele Bardouil, Benoit Beliaeff, Pierre Masselin, Magali Naviner, and Philippe Truquet
Effect of a continuous supply of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim on the feeding behavior of the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas Thunberg), pp. 211-216

Mohamed Laabir and Patrick Gentien
Survival of toxic dinoflagellates after gut passage in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas Thunberg, pp. 217-222

Lewis E. Deaton, Percy J. Jordan, and John R. Dankert
Phenoloxidase activity in the hemolymph of bivalve mollusks, pp. 223-226

Muki Shpigel, Norman L. Ragg, Ingrid Lapatsch, and Amir Neori
Protein content determines the nutritional value of the seaweed Ulva lactuca L. for the abalone Haliotis tuberculata L. and H. discus hannai Ino, pp. 227-233

Meegan E. Vandepeer, Patrick W. Hone, Robert J. van Barneveld, and Jon N. Havenhand
The utility of apparent digestibility coefficients for predicting comparative diet growth performance in juvenile greenlip abalone Haliotis laevigata , pp. 235-241

Rodney D. Roberts, Tomohiko Kawamura, and Christine M. Nicholson
Growth and survival of postlarval abalone (Haliotis iris) in relation to development and diatom diet, pp. 243-250

F. Laruelle, D. P. Molloy, S. L Fokin, and M. A. Ovcharenko
Histological analysis of mantle-cavity ciliates in Dreissena polymorpha: Their location, symbiotic relationship, and distinguishing morphological characteristics, pp. 251-257

Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Milford Aquaculture Seminar, Milford, Connecticut, February 27-March 1, 1999, pp. 259-280

Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 91st annual meeting of the National Shellfisheries Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada April 18-22, 1999, pp. 281-335