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The crown pearl: a draft genome assembly of the European freshwater pearl musse...
Gomes-dos-Santos, André; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Machado, André M.; Ramos, António Marcos; Usié, Ana; Bolotov, Ivan N.; Vikhrev, Ilya V.; Breton, SophieSince historical times, the inherent human fascination with pearls turned the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) into a highly valuable cultural and economic resource. Although pearl harvesting in M. margaritifera is nowadays residual, other human threats have aggravated the species conservation status, especially in Europe. This mussel presents a myriad of rare biological feat...
Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea)...
Froufe, Elsa; Bolotov, Ivan N.; Aldridge, David C.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Breton, Sophie; Gan, Han Ming; Kovitvadhi, Uthaiwan; Kovitvadhi, SatitUsing a new fossil-calibrated mitogenome-based approach, we identified macroevolutionary shifts in mitochondrial gene order among the freshwater mussels (Unionoidea). We show that the early Mesozoic divergence of the two Unionoidea clades, Margaritiferidae and Unionidae, was accompanied by a synchronous split in the gene arrangement in the female mitogenome (i.e., gene orders MF1 and UF1). Our results suggest t...
The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater...
Gomes-dos-Santos, André; Froufe, Elsa; Amaro, Rafaela; Ondina, Paz; Breton, Sophie; Guerra, Davide; Aldridge, David C.; Bolotov, Ivan N.The complete mitogenomes of one (M-)ale (North America), one Hermaphroditic (Europe), and two (F-)emale (North America and Europe) individuals of the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera were sequenced. The M-type and F-type (Female and Hermaphroditic) mitogenomes have 17,421 and 16,122 nucleotides, respectively. All with the same content: 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, two ribosomal R...
The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater...
Gomes-dos-Santos, André; Froufe, Elsa; Amaro, Rafaela; Ondina, Paz; Breton, Sophie; Guerra, Davide; Aldridge, David C.; Bolotov, Ivan N.The complete mitogenomes of one (M-)ale (North America), one Hermaphroditic (Europe), and two (F-)emale (North America and Europe) individuals of the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera were sequenced. The M-type and F-type (Female and Hermaphroditic) mitogenomes have 17,421 and 16,122 nucleotides, respectively. All with the same content: 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, two ribosomal R...
Conbiomics: the missing approach for the conservation of freshwater bivalves
Froufe, Elsa; Fonseca, Miguel M.; Teixeira, Amílcar; Varandas, Simone; Gonçalves, Duarte V.; Hinzmann, Mariana; Arenas-Arenas, Francisco JoséThe decline of freshwater biodiversity hás reached alarming proportions. The extinction rate of freshwater biodiversity is predicted to be five times faster than ali other groups of species. The Unionidae, being the largest of the freshwater bivalve families, is among the most endangered group in the world. They are important providers of aquatic ecosystem services and are characterized by an unusual pattem of ...
Conbiomics: the missing approach for the conservation of freshwater bivalves
Froufe, Elsa; Fonseca, Miguel M.; Teixeira, Amílcar; Varandas, Simone; Gonçalves, Duarte V.; Hinzmann, Mariana; Arenas-Arenas, Francisco JoséThe decline of freshwater biodiversity hás reached alarming proportions. The extinction rate of freshwater biodiversity is predicted to be five times faster than ali other groups of species. The Unionidae, being the largest of the freshwater bivalve families, is among the most endangered group in the world. They are important providers of aquatic ecosystem services and are characterized by an unusual pattem of ...