Geographic pattern of shell morphology in the endemic freshwater mussel Unio ravoisieri (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from northern Tunisia
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Host specificity and metamorphosis of the glochidium of the freshwater mussel Unio tumidiformis (Bivalvia: Unionidae).
The glochidium larvae of freshwater mussels of the family Unionidae need to find suitable hosts to attach themselves and metamorphose into free-living juveniles. The specificity of the host-parasite relationship was investigated for the Iberian Unio tumidiformis Castro, 1885 by means of experimental infections and also by analyzing naturally infected fish. The process of encapsulation of glochi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molluscan Studies
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1464-3766,0260-1230
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyu069