Conservation status and a novel restoration of the endangered freshwater mussel Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788: Poland case

M Soroka, B Wasowicz, K Zając - Knowledge & Management of …, 2021 - kmae-journal.org
Bivalves play an important part in freshwater ecosystems and improve water quality; the
thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus is classified as a bioindicator. Unfortunately, the …

Unorthodox features in two venerid bivalves with doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria

C Capt, K Bouvet, D Guerra, BM Robicheau… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In animals, strictly maternal inheritance (SMI) of mitochondria is the rule, but one exception
(doubly uniparental inheritance or DUI), marked by the transmission of sex-specific …

Mitogenomic phylogeny resolves Cuneopsis (Bivalvia: Unionidae) as polyphyletic: The description of two new genera and a new species

XP Wu, YT Dai, N Yin, FY Shu, ZG Chen… - Zoologica …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater mussels are known to have two types of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) transmitted
separately through oocytes and sperms, namely, maternal (F‐type) and paternal (M‐type) …

Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F-and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia)

A Zieritz, E Froufe, I Bolotov… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The Unionidae represent an excellent model taxon for unravelling the drivers of freshwater
diversity, but, phylogeographic studies on Southeast Asian taxa are hampered by lack of a …

Complete mitochondrial genome of freshwater pearl mussel Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck, 1819) and its phylogenetic relation within unionidae family

A Pavan-Kumar, S Varshney, S Suman, R Das… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Background Freshwater mussels play a key role in ecology and are often considered as
ecological indicators. Conversely, these molluscs are one of the most threatened groups …

No evidence of DUI in the Mediterranean alien species Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fisher, 1870) despite mitochondrial heteroplasmy

M Lubośny, B Śmietanka, M Arculeo, A Burzyński - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Two genetically different mitochondrial haplogroups of Brachidontes pharaonis (p-distance
6.8%) have been identified in the Mediterranean Sea. This hinted at a possible presence of …

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: Nanopore sequencing and complete assembly of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus) mitogenome uncovers the …

HM Gan, F Grandjean, TL Jenkins, CM Austin - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background The recently published complete mitogenome of the European lobster
(Homarus gammarus) that was generated using long-range PCR exhibits unusual gene …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of mitochondrial genomes resolves the phylogenetic position of Chinese freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae)

RW Wu, XJ Liu, S Wang, KJ Roe, S Ouyang, XP Wu - ZooKeys, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Yangtze River basin is one of the most species-rich regions for freshwater
mussels on Earth, but is gravely threatened by anthropogenic activities. However …

The ORF in the control region of the female-transmitted Mytilus mtDNA codes for a protein

P Ouimet, L Kienzle, M Lubosny, A Burzyński, A Angers… - Gene, 2020 - Elsevier
Bivalve species with doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria have been shown to
contain additional mtDNA-encoded proteins suspected to be involved in sex-specific …

[HTML][HTML]  Unveiling the identity of Diaurora Cockerell, 1903 (Bivalvia, Unionidae): morphology, molecular phylogenetics, and the description of a new species

ZG Chen, YT Dai, S Ouyang, XC Huang, XP Wu - ZooKeys, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract The monotypic freshwater mussel genus Diaurora Cockerell, 1903 has long been
enigmatic due to its rarity and morphological confusion with Acuticosta. In this study, we …