...Zeineb Bouhlel; Bertrand Genard; Neilly Ibrahim; Emily Carrington; José M. F. Babarro; Aynur Lok; Augusto A. V. Flores; Christian Pellerin; Réjean Tremblay; Isabelle Marcotte ABSTRACT Several bivalve species produce byssus threads to provide attachment to substrates, with mechanical properties...

...Trevor Pearce; Michael LaBarbera SUMMARY Mytilid bivalves employ a set of threads (the byssus) to attach themselves to both hard and soft substrates. In this study, we measured the mechanical properties of byssal threads from two semi-infaunal mytilids ( Geukensia demissa Dillwyn and Modiolus...

...Trevor Pearce; Michael LaBarbera SUMMARY The byssus is the set of proteinaceous threads widely used by bivalves to attach themselves to the substrate. Previous researchers have focused on a single byssate family, the Mytilidae. However, the properties of byssal threads from species outside...

...Matthew J. Harrington; J. Herbert Waite SUMMARY The marine mussel Mytilus californianus Conrad inhabits the most wave-exposed regions of the rocky intertidal by dint of its extraordinary tenacity. Tenacity is mediated in large part by the byssus, a fibrous holdfast structure. M. californianus...

...: Department of Biology, Friday Harbor Laboratories,University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA 21 3 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Mytilus byssus attachment strength material properties tenacity Mussels are well known for their ability...

... mechanical behaviors. It is apparent from this comparison that M. galloprovincialis and M. edulis are seemingly interchangeable models for byssal research. byssus byssal thread collagen mussel Mytilus edulis Mytilus galloprovincialis cDNA Mytilid species inhabit near-shore oceanic...

...Kevin E. Anderson; J. Herbert Waite ABSTRACT The zebra mussel is one of only a few freshwater bivalves known to produce a byssus. This fibrous, proteinaceous and highly cross-linked structure allows the mussel to attach to a variety of substrata and contributes to its notoriety as a major...

... of Biologists 2000 Mytilus edulis mussel byssus preCol-P stem gland molecular dovetail Marine mussels ( Mytilus spp.) are superbly successful inhabitants of wind- and wave-swept rocky shores. This success is due in large part to their strong and opportunistic attachment to hard surfaces...

... byssus collagen gradient Mytilus edulis mussel amino acid sequence Collagens are highly diversified structural proteins derived chiefly from mesenchymal cells and employed in the scaffolding of connective and interstitial tissues. In some lesser known metazoans, collagens of ectodermal...