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Semimytilus algosus: first known hermaphroditic mussel with doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Larval trematodes infecting the South-American intertidal mud snail Heleobia australis (Rissooidea: Cochliopidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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]

open access: yesZooKeys, 2020
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Continuous reproduction of Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea,1824) females : an invasive mussel species in a female-biased population [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +1 more source

Current knowledge on population studies on five continental molluscs (Mollusca, Gastropoda et Bivalvia) of Santa Catarina State (SC, Central Southern Brazil region) [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Journal, 2011
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
doaj  

Biofilm Bacterial Dynamics and Changes in Inorganic Nitrogen Density Due to the Presence of Freshwater Pearl Mussels

open access: yesmSphere, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

On the Dispersal of Freshwater Bivalves [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1882
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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Autofluorescence of microborings in fossil freshwater bivalve shells

open access: yesLethaia, 2022
[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]

open access: yes, 2010
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 ...
Aksu   +49 more
core   +1 more source

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