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R/ODR-03
Evaluation of American oyster stocks for resource rehabilitation: Disease resistance and genetics (Maryland portion)
Principal Investigator:
Kennedy T. Paynter, Jr.Start/End Year:
1995 - 1999Institution:
University of Maryland, College ParkCo-Principal Investigator:
Donald Meritt, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceTopic(s):
- Oysters
Description:
To identify genetic differences among geographically separate C. virginica populations. To correlate genetic differences or markers among those populations with differences in disease susceptibility or resistance.
Funding Start Year
1995
Funding End Year
1999
Related Publications:
Malek, J; Breitburg, D.. 2016. Effects of air-exposure gradients on spatial infection patterns of Perkinsus marinus in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms118(2):139 -151. doi:10.3354/dao02964. UM-SG-RS-2016-04.
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Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
