Zebra mussel
Impacts of Zebra Mussel Veliger Control Treatments on the Survival of Water Hardened Landlocked Fall Chinook Salmon Eggs
... It must be noted that this study did not evaluate the effectiveness of any of the treatment protocols on the control of zebra mussel veligers or adults during ac- tual egg shipment. While the protocols used ...
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Immunolocalization of Dpfp1, a byssal protein of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha
... the zebra mussel (Rzepecki and Waite, 1993b), in sufficient quantities to serve as an antigen for the production of a polyclonal ...the mussel is responsible for the synthesis and storage of ...
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Habitat engineering by the invasive zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) in a boreal coastal lagoon: impact on biodiversity
... of zebra mussel to aVect the distribution of species by chang- ing the resource availability at a site of its direct occurrence (not necessarily at a large ‘Dreissena reef’), and form some sort of “oases” ...
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Development of an in vitro culture method for cells and tissues from the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)
... In the present study, both explant and cell suspen- sion methods were investigated. The ultimate aim in the development of this technique was for its potential use in vitro toxicity tests to study the mechanistic effect ...
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An Assessment of the Effects of Zebra Mussel Presence on Clam Health: a case study in Five Northern Michigan Lakes
... Zebra mussel presence in the waterbodies of the Great Lakes Region continues to have large effects on the aquatic ecosystems they inhabit, specifically in relation to a decrease in unionid clam ...how ...
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The Effect of Lead Bioaccumulation on Condition Indices of Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) From Anzali Wetland-Caspian Sea
... by zebra mussel in high ...of zebra mussel with the its accumulation in the soft tissue of mussels from the Anzali wetland in the south Caspian Sea region are investigated in order to better ...
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Impact of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha invasion on the budget of suspended material in a shallow lagoon ecosystem
... the zebra mussel Dreissena poly- morpha in redistribution of total particulate material (TPM) between the water column and bottom sediment was estimated using the TPM budget for a mussel bed in the ...
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Potassium transport in the freshwater bivalve Dreissena polymorpha
... In a study of potassium transport in two unionids and a corbiculid, Dietz and Byrne (1990) hypothesized that excess potassium in the blood may depolarize excitable tissue and ultimately determine tolerance limits for ...
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Lough Corrib SAC 000297
... Lake habitat 3140 is associated with high water quality, as demonstrated by naturally low algal growth. As for nutrients, the default target is WFD ‘High Status’ or oligotrophic (OECD, 1982). Average growing season ...
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Multi-Marker Study of Dreissena polymorpha Populations from Hydropower Plant Reservoir and Natural Lake in Latvia
... In this study we focused on the stress and toxicity responses of a recognized indicator species, the invasive bivalve mollusc zebra mussel. The results reflect substantial differences between the two ...
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Hyperunstable matrix proteins in the byssus of Mytilus galloprovincialis
... The western blots from both the AU PAGE and SDS PAGE suggest that the chemical and structural changes undergone by TMPs during thread formation and maturation may have affected the immunoreactivity of the protein. These ...
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Remnant Freshwater Mussel Diversity in Rondeau Bay, Lake Erie
... in 2014 and 2015, 27 sites in Rondeau Bay, ontario, canada, were surveyed for freshwater mussels. Rondeau Bay is a large coastal wetland on the north shore of Lake Erie. twenty-three species were identified from 120 live ...
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Size selectivity and energy maximisation of the introduced seastar, Asterias amurensis (Ltitken), in Tasmania, Australia
... This experiment is designed to investigate the selectivity of A. amurensis for different sizes of the mussel, Mytilus edulis, with the aim of predicting the impact this species will have on the age structure of ...
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Effects of Land Use and Land Cover on Freshwater Mussel Populations in the Upper Neuse River Basin, NC: A GIS Approach
... Another objective of the study was to examine the effect of land cover and other environmental variables on mussel populations. Ordination techniques accounted for some of the variability in the community ...
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Potential applications of mussel modelling
... of mussel ecology, we thought it timely to review the existing approaches to modelling mussels and to see how these might be ap- plied to improving their ...
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Documentation of sites of intertidal blue mussel (Mytilus edulis L.) beds of the Lower Saxonian Wadden Sea, southern North Sea (as of 2003) and the role of their structure for spatfall settlement
... actual mussel beds, in each case to the same extent, because there they Wnd suitable substrata for ...blue mussel recruitment in the Wadden Sea, which is dominated by Wne-grained sediments, and already ...
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Development and synthesis of a native freshwater mussel toxicity database
... A database of native freshwater mussel toxicity test results was developed based on a literature search and review of 125 published articles and other available data. The database includes quantitative results ...
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Enhanced microbial nitrogen transformations in association with macrobiota from the rocky intertidal
... From 29 June to 22 August 2012, 54 assays (27 pairs) were done in the chambers either in situ in tide pools 2 km east of Neah Bay, WA, USA; at Second Beach, WA (n = 19) (48.23 ◦ N, 124.40 ◦ W); at the shore at Tatoosh ...
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Assessment of Marine Pollution at Bay of Oran, Algeria
... Urban and industrial activities located on the coast, introduce a significant amount of heavy metals in the ma- rine environment, the study of the impact of this pollution is the subject of many studies [5]-[8]. In order ...
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Chemolithoheterotrophy in a metazoan tissue: thiosulfate production matches ATP demand in ciliated mussel gills
... The ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa inhabits sulfide- rich coastal sediments with a distribution that suggests a preference for exposure to sulfide. Although sulfide is a respiratory poison, it is also a potent ...
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