Oysters are representative bivalve molluscs that are widely distributed in world oceans. As
successful colonizers of estuaries and intertidal zones, oysters are remarkably resilient …

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 …

Bivalve molluscs are descendants of an early-Cambrian lineage superbly adapted to
benthic filter feeding. Adaptations in form and behavior are well recognized, but the …

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 …

More and more infectious diseases affect marine molluscs. Some diseases have impacted
commercial species including MSX and Dermo of the eastern oyster, QPX of hard clams …

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 …

Genetic linkage maps are indispensable tools in genetic and genomic studies. Recent
development of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) methods holds great promise for …

Virus-induced genes were identified using suppression subtractive hybridisation (SSH) from
Pacific cupped oyster, Crassostrea gigas, haemocytes challenged by OsHV-1. A total of 304 …

Over their 500 million year history, gastropods have radiated into marine, freshwater and
terrestrial environments and adopted life styles ranging from herbivory to carnivory to …

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