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OBSERVATIONS PHYSIOLOGIQUES ET BIOCHIMIQUES SUR 
L'ACTIVITE SEXUELLE CHEZ LES MOULES 
(MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS)

Gabriela Dimoftache et Adrian Telembici
Institut Roumain de Recherches Marines Constanta


Abstract
The paper presents the interrelations between the sexual
activity of two types of mussels (rock and deep-water breeds)
and the influence of certain abiotic and biotic environment
parameters. The authors also investigated the dynamics of
several groups of biochemical compounds in various period
of the sexual cycle. The interdependence is stressed out
which exists between the physiological activity and the 
biochemical composition within the annual sexual cycle
of mussels.