Cells divide in the fertilized eggs until microscopic swimming larvae form. In the wild, larvae would travel with the currents, but in the hatchery they are collected and placed in tanks.

Fan mussel populations -the biggest bivalve mussel in the Mediterranean- are endangered due to the severe parasitosis caused by the protozoan Haplospridium pinnae since 2016. Now, a study ...

Unique and highly specialized animals, mussels begin life as larvae before spending their adulthood as sedentary bivalves. Larvae, which are microscopic in size, parasitize a fish host before ...

The clearance rate of A. aurita varied widely with prey organisms. Large crustacean prey with low escape capabilities (Artemia salina nauplii and cirripede larvae) were cleared at high rates, whereas ...

Australian flat oysters' microscopic larvae drift in currents and swim with hairlike cilia, searching for a hard surface—ideally a thriving reef made of shells from other oysters—to cement ...

The larvae attach themselves to clean, recycled shells are clustered in net bags about two feet long. "They come in a roll," Sylvia said of the netting, "and we cut each bag and tie one end." ...

Using high-powered microscopes, paleontologists analyzed the stomach contents and intestinal tract of F. brocksi and found the fish primarily fed on various types of phantom midge larvae — an ...