This brief review questions the belief that just because it is possible to measure vertebrate
steroids (such as estradiol-17β, testosterone and progesterone) in the tissues of …

Sedentary broadcast‐spawning marine invertebrates, which release both eggs and sperm
into the water for fertilization, are of special interest for sexual selection studies. They …

Dreissena polymorpha is a mussel species that invaded many lotic and lentic inland waters
in Western Europe and North America. Its positive or negative interactions with biotic and …

Six experiments were carried out to define the optimum conditions for investigating the
dynamics of uptake and metabolism of tritiated E 2 from water by adult blue mussels, Mytilus …

The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha constitutes an extensively used sentinel species
for biomonitoring in European and North American freshwater systems. However, this …

The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, is extensively used as a sentinel species for
biosurveys of environmental contaminants in freshwater ecosystems and for …

Germ line segregation can occur during embryogenesis or after embryogenesis completion,
with multipotent cells able to give rise to both germ and somatic cells in the developing …

This book is perhaps the first attempt to comprehensively project the uniqueness of
molluscs, covering almost all aspects of reproduction and development from aplacophorans …

The quantity of eggs produced in an annual reproductive cycle of some commercially
important shellfish is vital in a hatchery operation or managing the wild populations. The …

El bivalvo Ctenoides scaber habita en arrecifes de corales del Caribe. Se colectaron 60
ejemplares quincenalmente durante un año, en la Ensenada Turpialito, Venezuela y se …