General Info

The mussles were moved to a lab in Redfield, where they were separated into glass jars, ready to be exposed to different environmental factors that might influence a sex change.

Keeping mussels alive is hard work! For the weeks they lived in WHOI’s Shore Lab, Goldstone or another member of the research team fed them a special solution daily.

Each mussel was carefully numbered so the research team could keep track of them at every phase of the experiment.