Marine Mussels
Comparative Analysis of Gender-Associated Complete Mitochondrial Genomes in Marine Mussels (Mytilus spp.)
... Marine mussels of the genus Mytilus have an unusual mode of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) trans- mission termed doubly uniparental inheritance ...Female mussels are homoplasmic for the F mitotype, which ...
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Evaluation of the Genotoxic and Physiological Effects of Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) and Dechlorane Plus (DP) Flame Retardants in Marine Mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis)
... Evaluation of the genotoxic and physiological effects of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) and dechlorane plus (DP).. flame retardants in marine mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) Enriq[r] ...
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Antagonistic Interactions between Benzo[a]pyrene and C60 in Toxicological Response of Marine Mussels
... Differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were only identified in the B[a]P single exposure and the 36.. B[a]P mixture exposure groups containing 1 mg/L of C 60 , the majority of which w[r] ...
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Assessing the impact of benzo[a]pyrene on marine mussels: use of a novel targeted low density microarray complementing biomarkers data
... in mussels exposed to 50 and 100 μg/L B[a]P, which is in line with the gene expression ...in mussels, indicates much higher concentrations in DG [51], which supports our finding of higher % tail DNA values ...
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Epithelial Amino Acid Transport in Marine Mussels: Role in Net Exchange of Taurine between Gills and Sea Water
... We also provide direct evidence that the epidermal transport pathway significantly reduces the rate of this loss from surface cells, and suggest that the transport process plays an impor[r] ...
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Does the membrane pacemaker theory of metabolism explain the size dependence of metabolic rate in marine mussels?
... The profile of fatty acids (% of total fatty acids) in phospholipids of gill tissue is provided in Table 2. On average, the FA pool contained 43.1% PUFA ( polyunsaturated fatty acids), 21.8% MUFA, 20.5% SFA and 14.6% ...
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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
... blue mussels are morphologically highly similar and occupy a range of intertidal and estuarine ...blue mussels overlap, hybridization is common (Varvio et ...of marine species along a corridor to the ...
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Can mussels be used as sentinel organisms for characterization of pollution in urban water systems?
... blue mussels and nine times for nutri- ents, particulate organic matter, chlorophyll a, temperature, salinity, pH, and oxygen during the wetter season (April– November ...
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Thermal Sensitivity of Freshwater Mussels: Incorporating Benthic Ecology into Laboratory Mesocosm Experiments.
... Freshwater mussels (Order Unionida) are especially vulnerable to disturbance because they are incapable of escaping detrimental changes at any practical temporal ...freshwater mussels is currently limited ...
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Dispersal Ability and Environmental Adaptability of Deep Sea Mussels Bathymodiolus (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolinae)
... Environmental differences between vents and seeps have not been elucidated well probably due to large site-to-site variations, but we readily assume the differ- ences. Vents seem more severe and ephemeral than seeps as ...
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Dispersal Ability and Genetic Structure in Mytilid Mussels of Whale Fall Communities
... mytilid mussels positioned ...Bathymodiolus mussels have small-sized eggs and planktotrophic development, which allows them to disperse long ...mytilid mussels including organic fall and shallow ...
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Ontogeny of juvenile freshwater pearl mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae)
... Research and efforts to conserve freshwater mussels (Unionida) increased dramatically during the 20 th Century in response to population losses and extinctions [1,2]. A species of particular concern is the ...
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Energetic costs in the coevolutionary relationship between bitterling fish and freshwater mussels
... demonstrated that infected mussels had higher routine oxygen uptake rates when hosting bitterling.. embryos at early developmental stages that reside between gill lamellae and distract w[r] ...
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Studies on the in vitro Propagation of Freshwater Mussels with Implications for Improving Juvenile Health.
... freshwater mussels have experienced a greater decline than most other wide ranging groups of organisms (Strayer et ...freshwater mussels in North America are listed as federally endangered or threatened, ...
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Exposure of unionid mussels to electric current: Assessing risks associated with electrofishing
... Freshwater mussels (families Margaritiferidae and Unionidae) are distributed worldwide, but their recent declines in diversity and abundance constitute an imperilment of global ...Freshwater mussels are not ...
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Marine Biotechnology A European Strategy for Marine Biotechnology
... of marine organisms used for their first feeding, and development of efficient artificial diets for early larval stages together with feed-dispersing techniques would add to the quality of larvae and reduction of ...
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Sensitivity of Early Life Stages of Freshwater Mussels to a Range of Common and Extreme Water Temperatures
... freshwater mussels and their host fish provides a valuable example for exploring how the loss of one species can have cascading effects for additional ...freshwater mussels, asynchrony with the presence of ...
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ZEBRA MUSSELS (Dreissena polymorpha) IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN LAKES: A CALAMITY FOR NATIVE CLAM HEALTH
... Zebra mussels also change water chemistry, remove phytoplankton and alter nutrient availability in aquatic food chains (MCartney and Mallez ...zebra mussels equal or greater to the organisms’ own mass, they ...
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Marine reptiles
... All marine reptiles have life history traits, behavior and physiology strongly influenced by temperature (Janzen ...of marine reptiles is believed to be linked with their thermal requirements and tolerances ...
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MarineDiesel. Marine Propulsion Engines. Non-Marine Engines
... On January 1, 2004, emissions regulations mandated by the EPA entered into effect for new commercial marine diesel engines installed on a vessels flagged or registered in the United States. The EPA has set forth ...
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