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Zooplankton species composition and diversity in the seagrass habitat of Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Seagrass habitats are considered to be some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet and safeguard some ecologically and economically important fauna, amongst which are some globally threatened species, including dugong.
Johan Ismail +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmentally persistent and highly toxic organochlorine compounds that may cause toxic effects on aquatic animals. In this study we assess the toxic effect of PCBs on a bivalve used in aquaculture, the clam Cyclina
Meimei Liu +14 more
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A Bivalve Biomineralization Toolbox [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2021 Abstract Mollusc shells are a result of the deposition of crystalline and amorphous calcite catalyzed by enzymes and shell matrix proteins (SMP). Developing a detailed understanding of bivalve mollusc biomineralization pathways is complicated not only by the multiplicity of shell forms and microstructures in this class, but also by the ...
Yarra, Tejaswi +2 more
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Aquatic Living Resources, 2023 Understanding the reproductive biology of a species is an important means of determining the renewal capacity of natural stocks, especially in the case of heavily exploited species.
Sané Babacar +6 more
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Freshwater Mussels Show Elevated Viral Richness and Intensity during a Mortality Event
Viruses, 2022 Freshwater mussels (Unionida) are among the world’s most imperiled taxa, but the relationship between freshwater mussel mortality events and infectious disease is largely unstudied.
Jordan C. Richard +9 more
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Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, 2023 Choice of microalgae diet affects production outcomes in bivalve hatcheries. This study aimed to identify an optimal microalgae diet to improve hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, juvenile production.
Md Mahbubul Hassan +3 more
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Impacts of Neonicotinoids on Molluscs: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Toxics, 2021 The broad utilisation of neonicotinoids in agriculture has led to the unplanned contamination of adjacent terrestrial and aquatic systems around the world.
Endurance E Ewere +2 more
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 The yellow clam is a sand-burrowing bivalve that inhabits the dissipative beaches from southern Brazil to the north coast of Argentina. In the last decades, populations of this species have been impacted by mass mortality events, overfishing and other ...
N. B. Gauthier +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The Arctic is exposed to unprecedented warming, at least three times higher than the global average, which induces significant melting of the cryosphere.
Guillaume Bridier +5 more
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Fishes, 2023 Ongoing ocean warming due to climate change poses new challenges for marine life and its exploitation. We have used transcriptomics to find genetically based responses to increased temperature in natural populations of the marine clam Ruditapes ...
Carlos Saavedra +6 more
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