Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA is a rare phenomenon occurring in some freshwater and marine bivalves and is usually characterized by the mitochondrial heteroplasmy of male individuals.
Marek Lubośny +3 more
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Larval trematodes infecting the South-American intertidal mud snail Heleobia australis (Rissooidea: Cochliopidae) [PDF]
Larval trematodes infecting the snail Heleobia australis (Cochliopidae) from the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina were surveyed for two years. A total of 7,504 snail specimens was dissected and the larval stages of 15 different trematodes were recovered ...
Alda, Maria del Pilar +1 more
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Annotated checklist of freshwater molluscs from the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia [PDF]
The Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia is a crucial freshwater biodiversity hotspot and supports one of the world’s largest inland fisheries. Within the Tonle Sap basin, freshwater molluscs provide vital ecosystem services and are among the fauna targetted for ...
Ting Hui Ng +9 more
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Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems
Indigenous peoples of North America, Australia, and New Zealand have a long tradition of harvesting freshwater animals. Over generations of reliance and subsistence harvesting, Indigenous peoples have acquired a profound understanding of these freshwater
Mae Noble +9 more
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Continuous reproduction of Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea,1824) females : an invasive mussel species in a female-biased population [PDF]
The reproductive activity of females of the Chinese pond mussel (Sinanodonta woodiana) was investigated in a European population inhabiting cooling water.
Domagała, Józef, Łabęcka, Anna Maria
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Current knowledge on population studies on five continental molluscs (Mollusca, Gastropoda et Bivalvia) of Santa Catarina State (SC, Central Southern Brazil region) [PDF]
Although still very scarce, available knowledge on population studies on continental (land and freshwater)molluscs in the territory of Santa Catarina State is shortly analyzed and discussed.
A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
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The freshwater pearl mussel (genus Margaritifera) has shown severe declines, while the mussels play important roles in the translocation of nutrients and materials in river water ecosystems.
Kayano Takeuchi +3 more
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On the Dispersal of Freshwater Bivalves [PDF]
THE wide distribution of the same species, and of closely-allied species of freshwater shells must have surprised every one who has attended to this subject. A naturalist, when he collects for the first time freshwater animals in a distant region, is astonished at their general similarity to those of his native European home, in comparison with the ...
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Autofluorescence of microborings in fossil freshwater bivalve shells
[EN] The microborings produced by euendolithic photoautotrophic microorganisms— cyanobacteria, chlorophytes and rhodophytes—are ubiquitous in recent and fossil marine mollusc shells. Photoautotrophic attacks in freshwater shells are also common, but the boring fossil record is very scarce.
Delvene Ibarrola, María Graciela +4 more
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Palynomorphs of brackish and marine species in cores from the freshwater Lake Sapanca, NW Turkey [PDF]
Lake Sapanca, which is located on the Sakarya–Sapanca–İzmit corridor in NW Turkey, is a freshwater lake with numerous fish farms in its catchment. Palynological analyses including non-pollen palynomorphs of a short (38.5 cm) and a longer sediment core ...
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