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As a result, coastal bivalves often experience strong seasonal changes in carbonate chemistry ... Prior to the field grow-out, clams exposed to elevated pCO₂ exhibited larger shells but lower dry ...

Bivalves are a type of mollusk. They are part of the class Bivalvia inside the phylum Mollusca. These animals are classified by a two-part hinged shell that is hard. This shell covers an invertebrate, ...

Disarticulated shells of three bivalve mollusk species (Anomalocardia brasiliana, Codakia orbicularis, and Divaricella quadrisulcata) were experimentally tested in laboratory flumes to determine the ...

This paper is one of the first major studies done using three-dimensional images of bivalve shells. The Maroon sat down with scientists Katie S. Collins, Stewart M. Edie, and David Jablonski to talk ...

Brachiopods and mollusks are 2 shell-bearing phyla that diverged from a common shell-less ancestor more than 540 million years ago. Brachiopods and bivalve mollusks have also convergently evolved a ...

Virginia oysters are shipped as far away as China and are now more valuable than scallops and crab. Long before the first human cracked open a shell, oysters have played a critical role in the ...

2022). Taken together, the quagga mussel Dreissena rostriformis shows a mosaic of co-option of known metazoan genes and de novo recruitment of genes with hitherto unknown function or ortholog match ...

Shells of bivalve mollusks serve as archives for past climates and ecosystems, and human-environmental interactions as well as life history traits and physiology of the animals. Amongst other proxies, ...

Six scalloped, bivalve shells consorted wordlessly beneath a ... mollusk and gastropod shells that resemble forms I know: cartoon brains, fingernails, the double curve of buttocks, pointed canine ...