1. Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick‐shelled river mussel, Uniocrassus.
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Aldridge, David C., Brian, Joshua I., Ćmiel, Adam, Lipińska, Anna, Lopes‐Lima, Manuel, Sousa, Ronaldo, Teixeira, Amilcar, Zając, Katarzyna, and Zając, Tadeusz
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FISH larvae ,MUSSELS ,REPRODUCTION ,WILDLIFE conservation ,LIFE history theory ,ANIMAL behavior - Abstract
Further isolation may arise through site-specific co-evolution between the mussels and hosts; Douda et al. ([7]) demonstrated that there are often differences in the suite of fish hosts used by I U. crassus i , even across genetically and geographically close populations. Keywords: conservation; glochidia; host specificity; parasitism; reproduction EN conservation glochidia host specificity parasitism reproduction 1 5 5 05/03/23 20230501 NES 230501 Understanding the life-history characteristics of endangered species is crucial to their conservation, management, and predicting their responses to environmental change (Stark et al., [16]). Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel, Uniocrassus Host specificity can increase vulnerability of mussels as survival is intrinsically linked to that of their hosts. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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