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GONADAL CYCLE OF CORBICULA LARGILLIERTI (BIVALVIA: CYRENIDAE) IN A PAMPEAN STREAMS, ARGENTINA

dc.creatorGONZALO ANDRÉS COLLADO INZULZA
dc.date2024
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T15:52:17Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T15:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractTHE REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES IS INDICATIVE OF THEIR CAPACITY FOR DISPERSAL, INVASION, AND COMPETITION, AND THE ALTERATION IN BIODIVERSITY. CORBICULA SPP. ARE SUCCESSFUL INVADERS OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS. WE STUDIED THE REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE OF CORBICULA LARGILLIERTI FROM A PAMPEAN STREAM, ARGENTINA, AT ITS SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA. SPECIMENS WERE COLLECTED MONTHLY FROM JANUARY 2003 TO APRIL 2005 AND PROCESSED USING TRADITIONAL HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES. THREE GONADAL STAGES (ACTIVE GAMETOGENESIS, MATURE, AND SPAWNED) WERE RECOGNIZED. IN THE STUDIED POPULATION, MOST INDIVIDUALS WERE HERMAPHRODITIC WITH A DOMINANT FEMALE GONADAL PORTION. THE THREE GONADAL STAGES WERE OBSERVED DURING THE WHOLE SAMPLING PERIOD WITH RAPID GONADAL RECOVERY; NO RESTING PERIOD WAS OBSERVED. FIVE OOCYTE SPAWNING EVENTS WERE RECOGNIZED, OCCURRING IN AUTUMN AND SPRING. EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF REPRODUCTIVE FEATURES OF THE CORBICULA LARGILLIERTI ALLOWS THE UNDERSTANDING OF CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS. THE RESULTS HIGHLIGHT THE DIFFICULTY OF IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF GAMETE RELEASE AND SPAWNING BEHAVIOR IN THIS INVASIVE SPECIES, AS IT IS RECORDED FOR OTHER CORBICULA SPP.
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dc.identifier.doi10.3390/d16060357
dc.identifier.issn1424-2818
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ubiobio.cl/handle/123456789/14040
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherDIVERSITY-BASEL
dc.relation.uri10.3390/d16060357
dc.rightsPUBLICADA
dc.subjectreproduction
dc.subjectnon-native species
dc.subjecthistology
dc.subjecthermaphrodite
dc.subjectfreshwater clam
dc.titleGONADAL CYCLE OF CORBICULA LARGILLIERTI (BIVALVIA: CYRENIDAE) IN A PAMPEAN STREAMS, ARGENTINA
dc.typeARTÍCULO
dspace.entity.typePublication
ubb.EstadoPUBLICADA
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BASICAS
ubb.SedeCHILLÁN
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