BACKGROUND: Aquatic invertebrates are playing an important role in assessment of the water contaminants and also serve as a major component of food chain. Freshwater mussels are considered to be the good bioindicator...
the Special Project Foundation (Grant No.2000050406) of Doctoral Degree , Ministry of Education,andthe Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.99J104) of Hubei Province ,P. R.China
Unionidae are an important group of benthic freshwater species. Due to the convergence phenomenon within freshwater mussels, there is still much controversy in the classification of Chinese Unionidae. In China, most s...
It was demonstrated by X-ray diffraction and SEM that the shell of Anodonta woocliana wocdiana consists of internal layer (lamellar aragonites with 0.37 μm of spacing) and external layer (prismatic calcites with 25--...