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The relationship between oxygen consumption (R) and tissue dry mass (W), R=aWb, was determined in the mussel Mytilus edulis from early veliger to the adult stage. A high b-value (0.887) was found for mussels containing from 0.1 μg-10mg tissue dry mass, whereas a lower b-value (0.663) was found for the larger mussels. The specific growth rate was estimated from growth experiments on the same developmental stages, as well as calculated from respiration measurements. The calculated and the actual measured specific growth rates were found to agree fairly well throughout the ontogeny of M. edulis.
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Hamburger, K., Møhlenberg, F., Randløv, A. et al. Size, oxygen consumption and growth in the mussel Mytilus edulis . Mar. Biol. 75, 303–306 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00406016
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