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Lipid Profile of the Freshwater Pearl Mussel Margaritifera margaritifera Inhabiting Different Biotopes of the Lake-River System of the Kem River, White Sea Basin

Diversity, 2023
The freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera is considered to be the most rapidly declining species of freshwater bivalve, whereas its colonies in rivers of the White Sea Basin remain the most numerous in the world.
Svetlana N. Pekkoeva, Viktor P. Voronin, Evgeny P. Ieshko, Natalia N. Fokina, Denis A. Efremov, Svetlana A. Murzina   +5 more
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Amazonian freshwater mussel density: A useful indicator of macroinvertebrate assemblage and habitat quality

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Mussels have important ecological functions in freshwater ecosystems, but populations are declining in many rivers worldwide. In the Amazon, which is undergoing widespread human-mediated alterations, information on mussel ecology is lacking.
Diego Simeone, Claudia Helena Tagliaro, Colin Robert Beasley   +2 more
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Sixty years of species diversity and population density decline of freshwater mussels in a global biodiversity hotspot

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
The worldwide decline in freshwater biodiversity due to rising anthropogenic pressures is of growing concern. Much evidence reveals that biodiversity loss and taxonomic homogenization results in loss of ecosystem functions.
Xiongjun Liu, Noé Ferreira-Rodríguez, Ruiwen Wu, Shan Ouyang, Xiaoping Wu   +4 more
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Freshwater mussels house a diverse mussel-associated leech assemblage [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2019
AbstractFreshwater mussels (Unionida) are one of the most imperiled animal groups worldwide, revealing the fastest rates of extinction. Habitat degradation, river pollution and climate change are the primary causes of global decline. However, biological threats for freshwater mussels are still poorly known.
Ivan N. Bolotov, Anna L. Klass, Alexander V. Kondakov, Ilya V. Vikhrev, Yulia V. Bespalaya, Mikhail Yu Gofarov, Boris Yu Filippov, Arthur E. Bogan, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Zau Lunn, Nyein Chan, Olga V. Aksenova, Gennady A. Dvoryankin, Yulia E. Chapurina, Sang Ki Kim, Yulia S. Kolosova, Ekaterina S. Konopleva, Jin Hee Lee, Alexander A. Makhrov, Dmitry M. Palatov, Elena M. Sayenko, Vitaly M. Spitsyn, Svetlana E. Sokolova, Alena A. Tomilova, Than Win, Natalia A. Zubrii, Maxim V. Vinarski   +26 more
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Phylogenetic Assessment of Freshwater Mussels Castalia ambigua and C. inflata at an Ecotone in the Paraguay River Basin, Brazil Shows That Inflated and Compressed Shell Morphotypes Are the Same Species

Diversity, 2020
The phylogeny and taxonomy of freshwater mussels of the genus Castalia in South America is complicated by issues of morphological plasticity and limited molecular genetic data.
Miluska Olivera-Hyde, Eric Hallerman, Rogério Santos, Jess Jones, Brianne Varnerin, Guilherme da Cruz Santos Neto, Maria Cristina Mansur, Priscilla Moraleco, Claudia Callil   +8 more
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Taxonomic Reassessment of Freshwater Mussels from the Western Balkans Reveals an Overlooked but Critical Refugium and Defines Conservation Priorities

Diversity, 2022
Freshwater mussels are an endangered group of animals, especially in the water bodies of Central and Western Europe. Conservation priorities were established for many endangered freshwater mussel species in the last decade. Here, we present new data on a
Artem A. Lyubas, Alexander V. Kondakov, Alena A. Tomilova, Mikhail Yu. Gofarov, Tatyana A. Eliseeva, Ekaterina S. Konopleva, Ilya V. Vikhrev, Olesya A. Yunitsyna, Vladimir Pešić, Ivan N. Bolotov   +9 more
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Using a multi‐model ensemble approach to determine biodiversity hotspots with limited occurrence data in understudied areas: An example using freshwater mussels in México

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Species distribution models (SDMs) are an increasingly important tool for conservation particularly for difficult‐to‐study locations and with understudied fauna.
Alexander H. Kiser, Kevin S. Cummings, Jeremy S. Tiemann, Chase H. Smith, Nathan A. Johnson, Roel R. Lopez, Charles R. Randklev   +6 more
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Fish and mussels: Importance of fish for freshwater mussel conservation [PDF]

Fish and Fisheries, 2017
AbstractCo‐extinctions are increasingly recognized as one of the major processes leading to the global biodiversity crisis, but there is still limited scientific evidence on the magnitude of potential impacts and causal mechanisms responsible for the decline of affiliate (dependent) species.
Vanessa Modesto, Martina Ilarri, Allan T Souza, Manuel Lopes‐Lima, Karel Douda, Miguel Clavero, Ronaldo Sousa   +6 more
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Viruses of Freshwater Mussels during Mass Mortality Events in Oregon and Washington, USA

Viruses, 2023
Freshwater mussels (Unionida) are globally imperiled, in part due to largely unexplained mass mortality events (MMEs). While recent studies have begun to investigate the possibility that mussel MMEs in the Eastern USA may be caused by infectious diseases,
Jordan C. Richard, Emilie Blevins, Christopher D. Dunn, Eric M. Leis, Tony L. Goldberg   +4 more
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Effects of the Invasive Freshwater Mussel Limnoperna fortunei on Sediment Properties and Accumulation Rates [PDF]

, 2018
Since its introduction into South America around 1990, the freshwater bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (the golden mussel) has spread rapidly and is now a dominant component of the benthic and periphytic fauna in many rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
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