Main Content
2021
Taylor Dolan, from Loyola University Maryland, worked with Dr. Ximing Guo to find out what the reproductive potential of the triploid Eastern oyster is relative to the diploid Eastern oyster. She cultured, counted, and measured triploid and diploid oyster larvae in the Cape Shore Laboratory, and learned many other interesting and cool things about aquaculture! They found that the fecundity of triploid oyster was significantly lower than that of the diploid oyster, and that the reproductive potential of the triploids was just 0.00005% of the diploids – diploids are 2 million times more likely to produce viable offspring than the triploids