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- Title
High frequency and severity of breakage-induced shell repair in western Atlantic Pinnidae (Bivalvia).
- Authors
Dietl, Gregory P.; Alexander, Richard R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the prevalence of breakage-induced shell repair in bivalves. It mentions the severeness of shell damage it made through metabolites signalling the location of an injured animal. It presents a chart that lists the repair frequency and percentage of embayed repairs for pinnids compared with species that lacks flexible valve margins. Moreover, it determines that the highly retractable mantle edges of the Pinnidae contributes to their tolerance of extensive shell breakage.
- Subjects
BIVALVES; MOLLUSKS; MARINE metabolites; MARINE chemical ecology; MARINE animals
- Publication
Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2005, Vol 71, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
0260-1230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mollus/eyi027