Mussel

Daskalakis and co-workers recently evaluated several procedures for digesting the tissues of oysters and mussels prior to analyzing the samples for silver. One of the methods used to evaluate the procedure is a spike recovery in which a known amount of silver is added... 

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Among the invertebrates, most of the world s production is associated with mussels, oysters, shrimp, scallops, and clams. Crawfish culture is of considerable importance in the United States, but amounted to only 24,211 metric tons in 1992 (4) insignificant compared to some other invertebrate species. 

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Clams, mussels, and other bivalves are a serious problem in many cooling water systems. Zebra mussels and freshwater Asiatic clams are relative newcomers to the United States. Because of a lack of natural predators and prodigious reproduction rates, they have rapidly become a serious threat to the operation of many cooling water systems. 

Resistance to marine organisms. In the case of submarine lines, the coating should not be easily penetrated by marine life, e.g. mussels, borers, barnacles, etc. 

Similarly, blocked intake screens caused by aquatic weeds, mussels, or floating debris reduce the heat transfer potential of the condenser. 

These same diamine materials find further application in, for example, formulations for mussel and barnacle control in large once-through, condenser cooling systems, as corrosion inhibitors and biostats for hydrostatic testing of oil and gas pipelines, and as corrosion inhibitors in food industry retort cookers. 

Lindstrom and Schubert63 applied GC-MS, GC-MS-MS and direct inlet MS-MS to determine 1,1-dichlorodimethyl sulfone (201, DDS) in aquatic organisms outside a pulp mill bleach plant. Both GC-MS-MS and direct inlet MS-MS of tissue extracts of fish and mussel appeared to be sensitive, selective and fast techniques for the determination of DDS. 

The Great Lakes have suffered the invasion of numerous exotic species of which the smelt, alewife and sea lamprey are probably the best known. More recently, two more species have entered the lakes probably via ballast water from foreign ships. The ruffe (Gymnocephalus cemuus) a small percid, feeds on the eggs and larvae of other percids and whitefish. The ruffe is currently considered to be a threat to Lake Superior s 5- 10 million whitefish fishery. The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) was discovered in Lake St. Clair in 1985 (31). It has subsequently been discovered at locations throughout the Great Lakes and is of major concern not only environmentally but economically. It has already colonized numerous industrial and domestic water intakes in sufficient numbers to entirely block water flow and is also an intermediate host to parasites which eventually invade fish. 

Campesan, G., Fossato, V.U., Stocco, G. Heavy metals in Mussels (Mytilus sp) from the lagoon of Venice (In Italian). Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Rapporti e Studi, 1981, 8, pp. 141-152. 

Caricchia, A. M., Chiavarini, S., Cremisini, C., Morabito, R., and Scerbo, R., Influence of Storage Conditions on the Determination of Organotin in Mussels, Analytica Chimica Acta 286, 1994, 329-334. 

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