Ribbed mussels could help improve urban water quality
Ribbed mussels can remove nitrogen and other excess nutrients from an urban estuary and could help improve water quality in other urban and coastal locations, according to a study in New York City's...
View ArticleCleaning up aquatic pollution with mussels
Scientists and activists alike have been looking for a solution to the problem of aquatic nutrient pollution. Now one group reports in Environmental Science & Technology that ribbed mussels are up...
View ArticleCaged blue mussels as environmental detectives
Two researchers in a boat loaded with thousands of blue mussels, collected from a mussel farm in Lillesand. The boat heads out the Kristiansand fjord, and the researchers deploy the blue mussels in the...
View ArticleSlippery liquid surfaces confuse mussels
It all began with a bet at a conference in Italy in 2013. Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg's lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at...
View ArticleChanging tides: Lake Michigan could best support lake trout and steelhead
Invasive mussels and less nutrients from tributaries have altered the Lake Michigan ecosystem, making it more conducive to the stocking of lake trout and steelhead than Chinook salmon, according to a...
View ArticleInvasive gobies may change Oneida Lake's complexion—again
Oneida Lake, a kissing cousin to New York's Finger Lakes, may soon get an environmental makeover due to another in a series of invasive species bringing havoc to the body's ecosystem and disturbing its...
View ArticleResearcher looks into declining Texas mussel populations
Jennifer Morton hovers methodically over a row of clear, water-filled containers on a tight-spaced industrial shelving system. She plucks a mollusk from one of the containers, observing the specimen as...
View ArticleModeling invasive activity: Zebra mussels' infiltration of North American rivers
The invasion of nonnative species has widespread and detrimental effects on both local and global ecosystems. These intruders often spread and multiply prolifically, overtake and displace native...
View ArticleResearch decoding the first deep-sea mussel genome published
A joint research led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has assembled the 1.64 gigabytes genome of a deep-sea mussel, which is roughly...
View ArticleMussel byssus threads produced by a combination of self-assembly processes...
The chemical industry can learn a lot from the common mussel. Not only are the mollusc's mother of pearl and tough threads with which it clings to the seafloor remarkable, but the way in which these...
View ArticleOcean acidification study offers warnings for marine life, habitats
Acidification of the world's oceans could drive a cascading loss of biodiversity in some marine habitats, according to research published today in Nature Climate Change.
View ArticleNew species of pea-size crab parasitizing a date mussel has a name of a Roman...
Tiny crabs, the size of a pea, dwell inside the mantles of various bivalves, living off the food filtered by their hosts. A new species of these curious crustaceans has recently been reported from the...
View ArticleResearcher leads worldwide effort to build largest-ever database monitoring...
In a promising step forward in the study of how climate change affects biodiversity, a group of 48 researchers led by Northeastern's Brian Helmuth, has created the largest-ever database recording...
View ArticleUTA biologist to expand study of invasive zebra mussels in Texas lakes
A professor emeritus in biology from The University of Texas at Arlington who is an esteemed expert in freshwater and marine invertebrates is expanding his research into the spread of invasive zebra...
View ArticleMalaysia's unique freshwater mussels in danger
Researchers in Malaysia revealed that Peninsular Malaysia hosts at least three rare mussel species, one of which (Hyriopsis bialata) is not found anywhere else on the planet. Another species (Ensidens...
View ArticleMussels disappearing from New England waters, scientists say
New England is running out of mussels.
View ArticleThousands of mussels wash up on shores of Long Island
Thousands of dead mussels have washed up this week on the shores of Long Island.
View ArticleMussel flexing: Bivalve save drought-stricken marshes, research finds
As coastal ecosystems feel the heat of climate change worldwide, new research shows the humble mussel and marsh grass form an intimate interaction known as mutualism that benefits both partner species...
View ArticleWhy are New England's wild blue mussels disappearing?
The Gulf of Maine coastline, historically home to one of the richest shellfish populations in the U.S., is undergoing a dramatic change, with once-flourishing wild blue mussels all but disappearing,...
View ArticleAcid attack—can mussels hang on for much longer?
Scientists from The University of Washington have found evidence that ocean acidification caused by carbon emissions can prevent mussels attaching themselves to rocks and other substrates, making them...
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