All Outputs (4)

Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata (2019)
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Riccardi, N., Froufe, E., Bogan, A. E., Zieritz, A., Teixeira, A., Vanetti, I., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2020). Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 189(3), 745–761. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz136

Freshwater bivalves are highly threatened and globally declining due to multiple anthropogenic impacts, making them important conservation targets. Because conservation policies and actions generally occur at the species level, accurate species ident... Read More about Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata.

Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution (2019)
Journal Article
Froufe, E., Bolotov, I., Aldridge, D. C., Bogan, A. E., Breton, S., Gan, H. M., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2020). Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution. Heredity, 124, 182–196. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-019-0242-y

© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Genetics Society. Using a new fossil-calibrated mitogenome-based approach, we identified macroevolutionary shifts in mitochondrial gene order among the freshwater mussels (Unionoidea). We show tha... Read More about Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution.

Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats (2019)
Journal Article
Zieritz, A., Najwa Binti Mahadzir, F., Ning, C. W., & Mcgowan, S. (2019). Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats. Hydrobiologia, 835(1), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3937-4

Freshwater mussels (Unionida) can strongly affect nutrient cycling in temperate ecosystems but data from the tropics is lacking. We quantified the effects of mussel filtration, excretion and biodeposition on nutrient and photosynthetic pigment concen... Read More about Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats.

Revisiting the North American freshwater mussel genus Quadrula sensu lato (Bivalvia Unionidae): phylogeny, taxonomy and species delineation (2019)
Journal Article
Lopes‐Lima, M., Burlakova, L., Karatayev, A., Gomes‐dos‐Santos, A., Zieritz, A., Froufe, E., & Bogan, A. E. (2019). Revisiting the North American freshwater mussel genus Quadrula sensu lato (Bivalvia Unionidae): phylogeny, taxonomy and species delineation. Zoologica Scripta, 48(3), 313-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12344

© 2019 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) have suffered strong declines over the last century. High morphological plasticity of Unionidae causes disturbances in their systematics and taxonomy, hampering conserv... Read More about Revisiting the North American freshwater mussel genus Quadrula sensu lato (Bivalvia Unionidae): phylogeny, taxonomy and species delineation.