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Complete mitochondrial genomes of the freshwater mussels Amblema plicata (Say, ...
Teiga-Teixeira, João; Froufe, Elsa; Gomes-dos-Santos, André; Bogan, Arthur E.; Karatayev, Alexander Y.; Burlakova, Lyubov E.; Aldridge, David C.Freshwater mussels are a critically imperiled group of mollusks that play key ecological roles and provide important services to humans. The Ambleminae is the only subfamily of these mussels, endemic to North America. Complete mitogenomes have only been sequenced for two of five tribes of the subfamily. Pleurobema oviforme, Amblema plicata, and Popenaias popeii each belong to tribes Pleurobemini, Amblemini, and...
Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and...
Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Burlakova, Lyubov E.; Karatayev, Alexander Y.; Mehler, Knut; Seddon, Mary; Sousa, Ronaldo GomesBivalves are ubiquitous members of freshwater ecosystems and responsible for important functions and services. The present paper revises freshwater bivalve diversity, conservation status and threats at the global scale and discusses future research needs and management actions. The diversity patterns are uneven across the globe with hotspots in the interior basin in the United States of America (USA), Central A...
Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and futur...
Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Geist, Juergen; Aldridge, David C.; Araujo, Rafael; Bergengren, Jakob; Bespalaya, Yulia V.; Bódis, ErikaFreshwater mussels of the Order Unionida provide important ecosystem functions and services, yet many of their populations are in decline. We comprehensively review the status of the 16 currently recognized species in Europe, collating for the first time their life-history traits, distribution, conservation status, habitat preferences, and main threats in order to suggest future management actions. In northern,...