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The environmental impact on growth was retrospectively analyzed in two White Sea populations of mussel Mytilus edulis by measuring the growth rings on their shell surface. The analysis involving the nonlinearity test and recurrent von Bertalanffy growth equation demonstrated the best environmental conditions for mussel growth in the regions of the Kast’yan Island and Malaya Pir’-guba in 1999 and 2001, respectively; while the worst conditions were observed in 1998 for both populations.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Zotin, N.D. Ozernyuk, 2006, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2006, No. 6, pp. 762–766.
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Zotin, A.A., Ozernyuk, N.D. Retrospective analysis of environmental impact on growth parameters in White Sea mussel Mytilus edulis . Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 33, 623–626 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359006060148
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