Effects of Salinity on the Reproductive Cycle of the Mangrove Oyster Crassostrea tulipa in Hatchery Conditions

Table 1

Statistical analysis of the effects of treatment (different salinities: S40, S35, S30, S25, and S20 for experiment I and S40–30, S20–30, and S30 for experiment II) and sampling time (T0, T10, T20, T30, and T40 for experiment I and T0, T7, T14, T24, T31, and T40 for experiment II) on shell height and condition index (CI) of mangrove oyster Crassostrea tulipa.

Experiment	Variable	Factor	F	Df
I	Height	Treatment	0.91	4	0.4595
		Sampling time	0.65	3	0.5830
		Interaction (T × S)	1.77	12	0.0525
	CI	Treatment	97.42	6	<0.0001
II	Height	Treatment	0.08	2	0.9226
		Sampling time	4.83	4	0.0010
		Interaction (T × S)	0.43	8	0.9027
	CI	Treatment	10.20	3	<0.0001

Significant results (ANOVA, ) are marked in bold.