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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"conglutinates"”.
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Acute Toxicity of Ammonia and Copper to Mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) Glochidia Inside and Outside of Conglutinates
… the female mussel within aggregates of eggs (conglutinates) that act to attract a host. The host frees the glochidia and becomes infected when attempting to feed on conglutinates. Time spent within conglutinates may far exceed the time spent free in the water. This study compares the toxicity …
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Life History Observations and Determination of Potential Host Fish Species for Chipola Slabshell, Elliptio chipolaensis
… glochidia are released from the female in conglutinates The potential fish host species for Elliptio chipolaensis are the bluegill and redbreast sunfish. Sixty percent of the bluegill successfully transformed E. chipolaensis glochidia into juvenile mussels while 80% of the redbreast sunfish …
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Life history of the endangered fine-rayed pigtoe pearly mussel, Fusconaia cuneolus (Lea, 1840), in the Clinch River, Virginia
… of gravid females assume the color of enclosed conglutinates, and hues change from pink to peach as embryos mature to glochidia. As judged by diel sampling of stream drift, glochidia of the fine-rayed pigtoe are most abundant in the water column in early morning. A total of 1,619 fish …
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Partitioning along reproductive niche dimensions in sympatric New Zealand freshwater bivalve species
… Female E. aucklandica were found to produce conglutinates, mucus packages containing miniature glochidia thought to lure specific fish to them by resembling fish prey. This is thought to be one of the first Unionida species outside of North America reported to be using functional …