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Researches on Sex-Change in the European Oyster

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THE fundamental fact about the breeding of the edible oyster is that the manifestations of this function may vary individually and in gross from season to season in a given locality, and, in general, differ also in different localities roughly according to the degree of warmth of their environment.

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ORTON, J. Researches on Sex-Change in the European Oyster. Nature 119, 177 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119177a0

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