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the threads which attach certain molluscs to the SUBSTRATE (2) or the stalk in some fungi.

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Although byssal thread attachment may contribute to handling costs of P.

Quantifying the effects of predator and prey body size on sea star feeding behaviors

3) Are there tradeoffs between growth in body mass and growth of byssal threads, the protein-rich extensions used to anchor individuals to the rock?

Emersion and temperature effects on growth rates and byssal thread production in two sympatric marine mussel species

Instead, the mussel anchors itself to a firm surface with a group of filaments called byssal threads or byssus, also known as the "beard" that has to be yanked off the shell before you start cooking.

Mussel Grip Secret Lies In Natural Bungee Cables Made Of Stiff And Soft Pieces

After 24 h, the settlement of mussels at various concentrations was recorded and minimum concentration which prevented byssal production and attachment was denoted as [EC.

Evidence for the antifouling potentials of marine macroalgae Sargassum wightii

Truncilla macrodon was located by observing tracks in the substrate, such that one individual, for example, was attached to a conglomeration of sand by byssal threads.

First account of a living population of Texas fawnsfoot, Truncilla macrodon (bivalvia: unionidae), in the Brazos River, Texas

The lower valve on which the scallop rests on the bottom has a paler color, is more convex, and also differs from the upper in having a byssal notch.

The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, Massachusetts through North Carolina: its biology and the history of its habitats and fisheries

Most mussels have what is commonly called "the beard," also known as byssal threads.

Chapter 10 Fish and shellfish

During seasonal sloughing of eelgrass blades, juvenile bay scallops break away and re-establish byssal attachments to seagrass blades (Thayer et al.

Effects of harvesting methods on sustainability of a bay scallop fishery: dredging uproots seagrass and displaces recruits

Five years later, and having figured out that mussels get their super grip by secreting proteins known as byssal threads, Li and his colleagues are on the forefront of the woodworking industry's latest adhesive alternative, which Li says would work especially well in plywood manufacturing.

New adhesive flexes its 'mussels'; Oregon State University's Kaichang Li uses mussels as inspiration for a durable, soy protein-based wood adhesive

Masses of kelp and epifaunal animals in windrows showed instances in which small-bodied individual Mytilus had fastened themselves to the bases of more massive, already attached Laminaria plants by byssal threads, and instances of the reverse, in which young individual Laminaria had anchored themselves by holdfast to valves of attached Mytilus.

A review of apparent 20th century changes in the presence of mussels (Mytilus trossulus) and macroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of historical and paleontological evidence used to relate mollusc distributions to climate change

The larvae readily attach to the byssal threads of juveniles and adults, but may also settle on bryozoans, hydroids, filiform algae, and other filamentous substrates (Lutz and Kennish, 1992).

Epibenthic community monitoring in New Jersey coastal bays: a priority initiative of estuarine research programs

It attaches itself to a rock with thin strands of "glue" called byssal (BISS-ul) threads.