Bivalves are comprised of animals unclosed in two shell valves, such as mussels, oysters,
scallops and clams. There are about 7,500 bivalve species and some of them are of …

Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves, and some of them are highly prized as
dominant aquaculture species. In the past decades, there have been increasing studies on …

Ammonia is one of the major pollutants associated with the main river basins due to
ammonification of uneaten food and animal excretion, which usually brings detrimental …

Shellfish production is seriously affected by bacterial pathogens that cause high losses in
hatcheries and in the aquaculture sector. A number of Vibrio species are considered …

Among 26 sous-vide cooking conditions of scallop adductor muscle (SAM), 65° C-5.5 h, 70°
C-1.5 h and 100° C-5 min were selected by the differential scanning calorimetry analysis …

The economical and phylogenic importance of mollusc has led an increasing number of
investigations giving emphasis to immune defense mechanism. This review discusses the …

The effect of live bacteria (Micrococcus lysodeikticus and Vibrio anguillarum), and PAMPs
(poly I: C, zymosan, LPS, LTA and CpG) on the production of intermediate toxic radicals …

Environmental chemico-physical factors, pathogens, and biological interactions constantly
affect organism physiology and behavior. Invertebrates, including bivalve mollusks do not …

Marine scallops, with extended planktonic larval stages which can potentially disperse over
large distances when advected by marine currents, are expected to possess low …

Comparative immunology, studying both vertebrates and invertebrates, provided the earliest
descriptions of phagocytosis as a general immune mechanism. However, the large scale of …