..., we used paired transcriptomic and proteomic datasets from two previous studies from gill of the California mussel, Mytilus californianus , to explore how simultaneous transcript and protein abundance patterns may diverge under different environmental scenarios . Field-acclimatized mussels were...

... mollusks respond to chronic mechanical stress. Once a week for 7 months, we compressed whole live California mussels ( Mytilus californianus ) for 15 cycles at ∼55% of their predicted one-time breaking force, a treatment known to cause fatigue damage in shells. We found mussels repaired their shells...

.... We studied the capacity for repair in the intertidal mussel Mytilus californianus by compressing live mussels for 15 cycles at ∼79% of their predicted strength (critically fracturing 46% of shells), then allowing the survivors 0, 1, 2 or 4 weeks to repair. Immediately after fatigue loading, mussel...

... about how long these adaptive changes remain without continuing exposure to heat stress. This study explored the rate at which field acclimatization states are lost when temperature variability is minimized during constant submersion. California mussels ( Mytilus californianus ) with different...

... catastrophic fracture. This test does not capture the potential role of fatigue, a process by which chronic or repeated, low-magnitude forces weaken and break a structure. We quantified the strength and fatigue resistance of California mussel ( Mytilus californianus ) shells. Shells were fatigue tested until...

... , 237 - 242 . Bayne   B. L. , Bayne   C. J. , Carefoot   T. C. , Thompson   R. J. ( 1976 ). The physiological ecology of Mytilus californianus Conrad 2. Adaptation to low oxygen tension and air exposure . Oecologia   22 , 229 - 250 . Braby   C. , Somero   G. ( 2006a...

... and invasive mussels, Mytilus californianus and Mytilus galloprovincialis , respectively. Both heat stress (28, 32°C) and cold stress (2, 6°C) led to significant double- and single-stranded breaks in DNA. The type and extent of DNA damage were temperature and time dependent, as was caspase-3 activation...

... activation in M. californianus was found to be approximately 9°C lower than the induction threshold for this species. *Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 20 7 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 mussel Mytilus trossulus Mytilus californianus...

...E. Eugene Williams; George N. Somero ABSTRACT Alterations in the order, or fluidity, of cellular membranes in response to variations in environmental temperature are well known. The mussel Mytilus californianus , a common inhabitant of mid-intertidal regions along the Pacific coast of North America...

...Douglas S. Neufeld; Stephen H. Wright ABSTRACT The response of gill cell volume in Mytilus californianus and Mytilus trossolus (= edulis ) to acute changes in salinity was assessed using three independent indicators: optical measurement of lateral cell height, measurement of intracellular water...

...Douglas S. Neufeld; Stephen H. Wright ABSTRACT We found that the basolateral surface of the gill epithelium of the marine mussel Mytilus californianus possesses a carrier-mediated process capable of concentrating taurine within epithelial cells. We used retrograde perfusion of gill sections...

...Arnold L. Silva; Stephen H. Wright ABSTRACT Long-term acclimation of Mytilus californianus to 60% artificial sea water (585 mosmol l −1 ; ASW) led to a 30–40% decrease in the taurine (53.5–36.9 μ mol g −1 wet mass) and betaine (44.8–26.2 μ mol g −1 wet mass) content of gill tissue, compared...

... Mytilus edulis Mytilus californianus gill epithelia Intertidal animals may be exposed to abrupt, but transient, changes in external salinity ( Stickle and Ahokas, 1974 ). For osmoconforming animals, including marine mussels of the genus Mytilus , this can result in large changes...