Haliotis rufescens

Anderlini, V. 1974. The distribution of heavy metals in the red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, on the California coast. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 2 253-265. 

United Kingdom shell vs. soft parts Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens California ... 

Hunt, J.W. and B.S. Anderson. 1989. Sublethal effects of zinc and municipal effluents on larvae of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens. Mar. Biol. 101 545-552. 

Winter, F. C. and Estes, J. A., Experimental evidence for the effects of polyphenolic compounds from Dictyoneurum califomicum Ruprecht (Phaeophyta Laminariales) on feeding rate and growth in the red abalone Haliotis rufescens Swainson, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 155, 263, 1992. 

Morse, A.N.C., Froyd, C.A., and Morse, D.E., Molecules from cyanobacteria and red algae that induce larval settlement and metamorphosis in the mollusc Haliotis rufescens, Mar. Biol., 81, 293, 1984. 

Slattery, M., Larval settlement and juvenile survival in the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) an examination of inductive cues and substrate selection, Aquaculture, 102, 143, 1992. 

Barlow, L. A., Electrophysiological and behavioral responses of larvae of the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) to settlement-inducing substances, Bull. Mar. Sci., 46, 537, 1990. 

Baloun, A. J. and Morse, D. E., Ionic control of settlement and metamorphosis in larval Haliotis rufescens (Gastropoda), Biol. Bull., 167, 124, 1984. 

Trapido-Rosenthal, H. G., Initial characterization of receptors for molecules that induce the settlement and metamorphosis of Haliotis rufescens larvae. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985. 

Trapido-Rosenthal, H. G. and Morse, D. E., L-a,co-diamino acids facilitate GABA induction of larval metamorphosis in a gastropod mollusc (Haliotis rufescens), J. Comp. Physiol. B, 155, 403, 1985. 

More recently, an abalone sperm attractant has been identified. Sperm of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens responds to soluble factors released into the seawater by conspecific eggs. Bioassay-guided purification revealed... 

Figure 1. An unfertilized egg of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens. The dark egg is 1 75 l m in diameter. The vitelline envelope is 0.6 pm in thickness and 245 pm in diameter (from Lewis et al., 1982).

Baginsky, M.L., Stout, C D., and Vacquier, V.D. (1990). Diffraction quality crystals of lysin from spermatozoa of the red abalone (Haliotis rufescens). J. Biol. Chem. 265 4958-4962. 

Diller, T.C., Shaw, A., Stura, E.A., Vacquier, V.D., and Stout, C.D. (1994). Acid pH crystallization of the basic protein lysin from the spermatozoa of red abalone Haliotis rufescens). Acta Crystallog., Sect. D 50 620-627. 

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