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Abstract(s)
Understanding the life-history characteristics of endangered
species is crucial to their conservation, management,
and predicting their responses to environmental change
(Stark et al., 2004). Host specificity is central to the evolutionary
diversification and conservation of the Unionida
(Barnhart et al., 2008; Modesto et al., 2018). In the North
American mussels of the Ambleminae subfamily, specificity
toward a restricted host fish range that shares the same
microhabitat as the mussel has resulted in remarkable
morphologies and behaviors that dramatically increase the
likelihood of attachment and successful transmission of
larvae (glochidia).
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Keywords
Conservation Glochidia Host specificity Parasitism Reproduction
Citation
Aldridge, David C.; Brian, Joshua I.; Cmiel, Adam; Lipinska, Anna; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Teixeira, Amílcar; Zajac, Katarzyna; Zając, Tadeusz (2023). Fishing for hosts: larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel, Unio crassus. Ecology. eISSN 1939-9170. 104:5, p. 1-5
Publisher
Wiley