Résumé
Growth and survival are the two most interesting characters for oyster farming as they determine the biomass produced in the farms (growth x survival). Thus, a selection program aiming at improving these two characters could be of a great help. However, the oyster, as a sessile organism, is influenced by environmental variability (spatial and temporal) either natural or caused by the used oyster culture methods. Submitted to this variability, oysters must have evolved so as to adapt (short term) to this environmental variability.