Mussels : ecology, life habits and control / / Jarek Nowak and Michal Kozlowski, editors.

• Superior document: Marine biology
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Nowak, Jarek, 1962-; Kozlowski, Michal, 1960-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Marine biology (New York (N.Y.))
• Physical Description: xi, 168 p. :; ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents

Native and Invasive Mussels / Slavka Stankovic, Mihajlo Jovic, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, and others -- Life and Interaction of Hydrobiological Organisms (Mytilus sp.) with Harmful Algal Blooms : Composition, Distribution and Metabolism of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Toxins in the Austral Pacific Region / Carlos Garcia, Nestor Lagos, Membrane Biochemistry Laboratory, Physiology and Biophysics Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and others -- Mussels as a Tool to Monitor Pollution / Elena Cubero-Leon, Corina M. Ciocan, Environmental Biology, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Hastings, United Kingdom -- Bioenergetic Model Predictions of Actual Growth and Allometric Transitions during Ontogeny of Juvenile Blue Mussels Mytilus edulis / Poul S. Larsen, Kim Lundgreen, Hans Ulrik Riisgard, DTU Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, and others -- The Synthesis of Vitellogenin in the Mussel Mytilus Galloprovincialis : An Interdisciplinary Approach / Marisa Agnese, Marina Prisco, Luigi Rosati, Mariailaria Verderame, Enrico De Meo, Ermelinda Limatola, Rosanna Del Gaudio, Serena Aceto, Piero Andreuccetti, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy -- Brachidontes solisianus (Bivalvia : Mytilidae) Re-colonization Dynamics on a Sandstone Reef at Pernambuco, Brazil / Mariana Alves de Guimaraens, Jessica Pires Sa Carneiro, Betty Rose de Araujo Luz, Janilson Felix da Silva, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil -- Mussel Farms in the Gulf of Naples (Campania, Southern Italy) : Real Opportunity or a Risk to Consumers? / Maria Grazia Esposito, Francesca Trinchella, Rosaria Scudiero, Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy.