Effects of environmental factors on changing sex structure of cultivated mussels (<i>Mytilus galloprovincialis</i>, Lamarck, 1819) in the coastal zone of the Black Sea
Journal: International Review of Hydrobiology
Year: 2021

Abstract Anthropogenically‐induced stressors such as eutrophication and pollution cause fundamental changes of environmental factors in many coastal ecosystems worldwide and may subsequently alter the sex structure of bivalve populations. Such a change of sex structure was observed in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis at the Black Sea coast of Crimea, where the sex ratio shifted toward male mussels. This pattern may be caused by the sex inversion in females, higher female mortality, and their