Structures that cause colour or provide antireflection have been found in both living and
extinct animals in a diversity of forms, including mirror-reflective and diffractive devices. An …

Giant clams, the largest living bivalves, live in close association with coral reefs throughout
the Indo-Pacific. These iconic invertebrates perform numerous important ecological roles as …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Scallops: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Third Edition, continues its history as
the definitive resource on scallops, covering all facets of scallop biology, including anatomy …

Many plant cells are characterized by the presence of a vacuole (hypertrophied lysosome)
occupying a large fraction of the protoplast. The possible benefits of the presence of the …

Anthropogenic sound has been shown to affect marine animals across taxa. However,
bivalves and other invertebrates have received limited attention, and most studies across …

With predation and carnivory as catalysts, the first known eye appeared in a trilobite during
the Cambrian explosion approximately 543 million years ago. This period was a crucible of …

Anthropogenic sound has increasingly become part of the marine soundscape and may
negatively affect animals across all taxa. Invertebrates, including bivalves, received limited …

Eye structure and optics were investigated in two sabellid polychaetes (Sabella
melanostigma, Dasychone conspersa) and three arcacean bivalves (Arca zebra, Barbatia …

" Algal symbiosis" plays a dominant role in the energy budget, gross anatomy, biochemistry,
skeletal structure, distribution, and reproductive strategy of most reef-building and many reef …