blue mussels
Following the heart: temperature and salinity effects on heart rate in native and invasive species of blue mussels (genus Mytilus)
... three blue mussel congeners, differences that may account, in part, for their current biogeographic patterning and, in the context of predicting the further invasive success of ...of blue mussels ...
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The Effects of Natural Hybridization on the Regulation of Doubly Uniparental mtDNA Inheritance in Blue Mussels (Mytilus spp.)
... To determine whether disrupted mitochondrial in- heritance is important in maintaining genetic differen- tiation among blue mussels, we first set out to assess whether[r] ...
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Bioaccumulation of metals in juvenile rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) via dietary exposure to blue mussels
... the mussels collected for this study (shown in Table 1), copper, lead and zinc concentrations determined in both mussel samples exceed the BACs outlined by the OSPAR ...in mussels residing in the Irish Sea ...
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In Situ Filtration Rates of Blue Mussels (Mytilus edulis) Measured by an Open Top Chamber Method
... Blue mussels, Mytilus edulis , form dense beds of both commercial and eco- logical importance, and many attempts have been made to determine their filtration ...which mussels actually utilise their ...
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Allometric equations for maximum filtration rate in blue mussels Mytilus edulis and importance of condition index
... Allometric equations for filtration rate of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, are widely used in physiological, ecologi- cal, and modelling studies (e.g. Bayne 1976; Winter 1978; Jones et al. 1992; Riisga˚rd ...
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Carbonic anhydrase activity and biomineralization process in embryos, larvae and adult blue mussels Mytilus edulis L.
... Adult blue mussels, M. edulis, with different shell lengths (48– 67 mm) were collected from the rocky shore of the island of Hel- goland, North Sea, Germany. The mussels were conditioned to ob- tain ...
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Comparative study of predatory responses in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) produced in suspended long line cultures or collected from natural bottom mussel beds
... Abstract Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis ...seed mussels collected with minimum impact on the benthic ...whether mussels collected in suspended cul- tures can be used for bottom culture ...
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Transcriptomic responses to heat stress in invasive and native blue mussels (genus Mytilus): molecular correlates of invasive success
... of blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, which spread to European waters from North ...of blue mussel, ...two blue mussels, and a number of physiological, biochemical and molecular studies have shown ...
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Sirtuins regulate proteomic responses near thermal tolerance limits in the blue mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis and Mytilus trossulus
... Animal collection, maintenance and experimental design Specimens of M. galloprovincialis Lamarck 1819 were collected subtidally from Santa Barbara, CA, USA (34°24 ′ 15 ″ N, 119°41 ′ 30 ″ W) and those of M. trossulus ...
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Genetics of Mother-Dependent Sex Ratio in Blue Mussels (Mytilus spp.) and Implications for Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA
... The general methods of spawning, gamete collection, fertil- mussels Saavedra et al. (1997) proposed a model of ization, and rearing of larvae and juveniles have been pre- sex determination according to which ...
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Population dynamics in hybridizing invasive blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) in British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces.
... Alternatively, on the east coast o f Canada, mussel aquaculture is a lucrative business, which relies on natural seeding from wild Mytilus populations. In contrast to the west coast o f Canada, the threat o f ...
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Associational resistance of fouled blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) against starfish (Asterias rubens) predation: relative importance of structural and chemical properties of the epibionts
... 2 years (Reusch and Chapman 1997). A. rubens alone accounts for over 80% of mussel mortality on soft bottom (Reusch and Chapman 1997). Epibionts on M. edulis have the potential to modify the top-down control by starfish ...
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Physiological effects of biocide on marine bivalve blue mussels in context prevent macrofouling
... The oxygen consumption was determined via the method of Bruijs et al. (2001). A closed glass respiratory chamber (750 ml), placed inside a double-walled glass beaker (to minimize temperature changes), was filled with ...
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Effect of salinity on filtration rates of mussels Mytilus edulis with special emphasis on dwarfed mussels from the low-saline Central Baltic Sea
... of blue mussels, that is, Mytilus trossulus which shows some genetic introgression from ...of mussels from the two populations (Kautsky et ...of mussels from the two populations has not yet ...
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Shellfish Tissue Monitoring in Piscataqua Region Estuaries 2013
... Originally conducted by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment from 1993 to 2011, the Gulfwatch Program examined trends in the water quality of the Gulf of Maine by monitoring toxic contaminant ...
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Modeling the influence of mussels and oysters on hydrodynamics and sediment transport
... (of mussels) sink easily to the sea bed as a result of the larger settling ...of mussels are firmer, the length of the faeces is between 4 and 8 mm long (Carlsson et ...for Blue mussels ...
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Stochastic modeling of forces on jacket-type offshore
... Gamma process provides individual shell length time series for blue mussels in the first year of 51.. colonization.[r] ...
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Temperature sensitivities of cytosolic malate dehydrogenases from native and invasive species of marine mussels (genus Mytilus): sequence function linkages and correlations with biogeographic distribution
... three blue mussels are morphologically highly similar and occupy a range of intertidal and estuarine ...of blue mussels overlap, hybridization is common (Varvio et ...the blue mussel ...
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Effect of Salinity on Growth of Mussels, Mytilus edulis, with Special Reference to Great Belt (Denmark)
... Blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, were collected in Kerte- minde Bugt in the autumn of 2009 and transported to the nearby Marine Biological Research Centre (SDU) in Kerteminde, Denmark, where the feeding and ...
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Intensive sampling and comparison of methods in detection of non-indigenous species
... 2015). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a specific fragment of DNA often used in the detection of species. mtDNA is present in higher copies than nuclear DNA because mitochondria are numerous within a cell. Both mtDNA, 16S ...
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