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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Marine Biology Volume 2012, Article ID 281206, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/281206 Research Article Shell Shape Analysis and Spatial Allometry Patterns of Manila Clam (Ruditapes philippinarum ) in a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon 1 ¨ 2 ´ ´ 3 1 4 Nathalie Caill-Milly, Noelle Bru, Kelig Mahe, Catherine Borie, and Frank D’Amico 1 Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques Aquitaine, IFREMER, FED 4155 MIRA, 1 allee du Parc Montaury, 64600 Anglet, France ´ 2 Laboratoire de Mathematiques et de leurs Applications de Pau, UMR CNRS 5142, FED 4155 MIRA, ´ UNIV PAU PAYS ADOUR, 64000 Pau, France 3 Pole de Sclerochronologie, IFREMER Centre Manche-Mer du Nord, 150 Quai Gambetta, 62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France ˆ ´ 4 UMR ECOBIOP, FED 4155 MIRA, UNIV PAU PAYS ADOUR, Campus Montaury, 64600 Anglet, France Correspondence should be addressed to Nathalie Caill-Milly, ly@ifremer.fr Received 19 April 2012; Accepted 25 June 2012 Academic Editor: Robert A. Patzner Copyright © 2012 Nathalie Caill-Milly et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. While gradual allometric changes of shells are intrinsically driven by genotype, morphometrical shifts can also be modulated by local environmental conditions. Consequently the common use of a unique dimension (usually length) to assess bivalves’ growth