Current Status of Omics in Biological Quality Elements for Freshwater Biomonitoring

J Machuca-Sepúlveda, J Miranda, N Lefin, A Pedroso… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Freshwater ecosystems face various threats, especially in recent decades,
that pose unprecedented challenges to human health, water supply, agriculture, forestry …

Bivalves as emerging model systems to study the mechanisms and evolution of sex determination: a genomic point of view

F Nicolini, F Ghiselli, A Luchetti… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bivalves are a diverse group of molluscs that have recently attained a central role in plenty
of biological research fields, thanks to their peculiar life history traits. Here, we propose that …

The gill transcriptome of threatened European freshwater mussels

A Gomes-dos-Santos, AM Machado, LFC Castro… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic tools applied to non-model organisms are critical to design successful
conservation strategies of particularly threatened groups. Freshwater mussels of the …

The genome of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha: a resource for comparative genomics, invasion genetics, and biocontrol

MA McCartney, B Auch, T Kono, S Mallez, Y Zhang… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, continues to spread from its native range in
Eurasia to Europe and North America, causing billions of dollars in damage and …

Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of rare and endangered tropical bivalve, Tridacna crocea

J Li, H Ma, Y Qin, Z Zhao, Y Niu, J Lian, J Li, Z Noor… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Tridacna crocea is an ecologically important marine bivalve inhabiting tropical coral reef
waters. High quality and available genomic resources will help us understand the …

A high-quality reference genome for a parasitic bivalve with doubly uniparental inheritance (Bivalvia: Unionida)

CH Smith - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
From a genomics perspective, bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia) have been poorly explored with
the exception for those of high economic value. The bivalve order Unionida, or freshwater …

PacBio Hi-Fi genome assembly of the Iberian dolphin freshwater mussel Unio delphinus Spengler, 1793

A Gomes-dos-Santos, M Lopes-Lima, MA Machado… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Mussels of order Unionida are a group of strictly freshwater bivalves with nearly 1,000
described species widely dispersed across world freshwater ecosystems. They are highly …

Applying genomic approaches to delineate conservation strategies using the freshwater mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula as a model

S Perea, SL Mendes, C Sousa-Santos, P Ondina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Effective conservation actions to counteract the current decline of populations and species
require a deep knowledge on their genetic structure. We used Single Nucleotide …

The First High-Quality Genome Assembly of Freshwater Pearl Mussel Sinohyriopsis cumingii: New Insights into Pearl Biomineralization

Z Bai, Y Lu, H Hu, Y Yuan, Y Li, X Liu, G Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
China leads the world in freshwater pearl production, an industry in which the triangle sail
mussel (Sinohyriopsis cumingii) plays a pivotal role. In this paper, we report a high-quality …

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the freshwater mussel Sinosolenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877)

X Ma, W Jin, W Chen, Q Liu, H Jiang, Y Zhou, P Xu… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Sinosolenaia oleivora (Bivalve, Unionida, Unionidae), is a near-endangered edible
mussel. In 2022, it was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs as a top-ten …