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Characterizing the Gut Microbial Communities of Native and Invasive Freshwater Bivalves after Long-Term Sample Preservation

Microorganisms, 2023
Freshwater mussels are important indicators of the overall health of their environment but have suffered declines that have been attributed to factors such as habitat degradation, a loss of fish hosts, climate change, and excessive nutrient inputs.
Stephanie N. Vaughn, Carla L. Atkinson, Paul D. Johnson, Colin R. Jackson   +3 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.
Barbosa, Bazan, Bertness, Biswas, Bloesch, Boltovskoy, Boltovskoy, Boltovskoy, Boltovskoy, Bonachea, Boyd, Burlakova, Carlsson, Cataldo, Cataldo, Chaffin, Cicchetti, Colombo, Crawford, Depetris, Di Gregorio, Dillon, Framiñan, Gergs, Graf, Grenz, Hammer, Hartstein, Hatcher, Hoogsteen, Horppila, Jørgensen, Karatayev, Karatayev, Karatayev, Kaspar, Kleeberg, Klerks, Li, Linares, MacIsaac, Mayer, Mazouni, McCall, Mellina, Mida, Moreira, Moreira, Mosley, Musin, Nalepa, Newell, Newell, Oliveira, Ozersky, Reeders, Reynolds, Roditi, Ronco, Ruginis, Sardiña, Sardiña, Schuerch, Smyth, Sobczyński, Sornin, Sprung, Strayer, Sylvester, Sylvester, Sylvester, Sylvester, Tokumon, Torres, Tye, Valderrama, Vanderploeg, Wetzel, Yamada, Zaiko   +79 more
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Declining freshwater mussel diversity in the middle and lower reaches of the Xin River Basin: Threat and conservation

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Freshwater mussels provide important functions and services for aquatic ecosystems, but populations of many species have been extirpated. Information on biodiversity plays an important role in the conservation and management of freshwater mussels.
Weiwei Sun, Xiongjun Liu, Ruiwen Wu, Weikai Wang, Yanli Wu, Shan Ouyang, Xiaoping Wu   +6 more
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Salinity and pH effects on survival, growth, and reproduction of quagga mussels [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Background In recent decades, invasive quagga mussels have expanded to the Western United States from the Great Lakes region of North America. Most studies that evaluate the invasion potential of quagga mussels in western water bodies have utilized ...
Carina Seitz, Facundo Scordo, Erin Suenaga, Emily M. Carlson, Shaye McMillen, Logan Gregory, Sudeep Chandra   +6 more
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Multiple paternity promotes genetic diversity in captive breeding of a freshwater mussel

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Captive breeding can be an important supplement to habitat restoration in the conservation of threatened species. Careful choice of breeding regimes and genetic monitoring are essential to maintain genetic integrity and genetic diversity of target ...
Sebastian Wacker, Bjørn Mejdell Larsen, Per Jakobsen, Sten Karlsson   +3 more
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Effect of complex hydraulic variables and physicochemical factors on freshwater mussel density in the largest floodplain lake, China

Ecological Processes, 2023
Background Habitat degradation and flow regime alterations are two of the most prominent and common impact factors to freshwater mussel populations. Knowledge of the correlation between freshwater mussel distribution, density and habitat characteristics ...
Chenchen Jia, Chenhuizi Wu, Xiaochen Huang, Chunhua Zhou, Shan Ouyang, Xiongjun Liu, Xiaoping Wu   +6 more
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Sympatric Dreissena species in the Meuse River : towards a dominance shift from zebra to quagga mussels [PDF]

, 2015
The rapid spread of the quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis, in Western Europe is of particular concern since the species is known to have serious ecological and economic impacts, similar to those of the well-established zebra mussel, Dreissena ...
Beisel, Jean-Nicolas, Boets, Pieter, Lorquet, Julien, Marescaux, Jonathan, Sablon, Rose, Van Doninck, Karine   +5 more
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Ecological causes and consequences of the formation of taxa with reduced adaptive potential as exemplified by freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera)

Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2016
Freshwater pearl mussels live in rapid, cold rivers and streams, occupying the ecological niche that few of other bivalves fit. Therefore, these mussels are abundant in undisturbed habitats, and there is practically no struggle for existence in their ...
Alexander Makhrov, Ivan Bolotov, Valentina Artamonova   +2 more
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Can conservation targets for imperilled freshwater fishes and mussels be achieved by captive breeding and release programs? A systematic map protocol to determine available evidence

Environmental Evidence, 2019
Background Captive breeding programs are one of the many tools used by conservation practitioners as a means of conserving, supporting, and supplementing populations of imperilled species.
Lisa A. Donaldson, Trina Rytwinski, Jessica J. Taylor, Joseph R. Bennett, D. Andrew R. Drake, André Martel, Steven J. Cooke   +6 more
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DISTRIBUTION AND PHYLOGENETIC OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL UNIO TIGRIDIS BOURGUIGNAT, 1852 (BIVALVIA, UNIONIDAE) FROM GREATER ZAB RIVER, IRAQ

Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2022
Freshwater mussels are a guild of stationary, suspended-feeding species; they perform significant ecological functions like nitrogen cycling, bioturbation that gives oxygen and habitat that other creatures need to survive, and ...
Shwan Khursheed Bashê
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