ark shell


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marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface

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I sometimes find my own materials (ark shells) on Florida beaches.
Identification and expression analysis on bactericidal permeability-increasing protein (BPI)/lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) of ark shell, Scapharca broughtonii.
A study of Noah's Ark shell (Arca noae Linnaeus 1758) in Mali Ston Bay, Adriatic Sea.
Genome methylation level was negatively related to the shell length, the gross weight and the weight of soft body, but positively related to the shell broadness and the shell height of the ark shell Scapharca broughtonii (Sun et al., 2015).
The ark shell Scapharca subcrenata is a bivalve mollusc that inhabits muddy sediments in shallow coastal waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and is a commercially important species in China, Japan, and Korea.
KEY WORDS: ark shell, genetic characterization, mitochondrial DNA, COI gene, Scapharca broughtonii
The potential for aquaculture of the bearded horse mussel (Modiolus barbatus) and Noah's ark shell (Area noae) in southern Croatia.
KEY WORDS: ark shell, Scapharca broughtonii, age, growth, variation, shell sectioning and staining, water-based marking pen
Studies on the hanging culture of ark shell Anadara brougtonii Schrench: the growth by culture method.
ABSTRACT The reproductive biology and glycogen content of a subcrenated ark shell Scapharca kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906) in Ariake Bay were investigated from April 2004 to May 2005 in relation to environmental factors such as water temperature, salinity, and plankton settled volume.
In this study we investigated the effects of alcohol fractions of the blood shell (blood ark shell), Scapharca broughtonii, on the production of IL-4 from mouse EL4 T cells.
ABSTRACT Over the period from June 2002 to June 2003, we examined the relationship of seasonal changes in the mass of the gonad and somatic tissues to environmental factors for four size groups of the zebra ark shell Arca zebra at Chacopata, in northeastern Venezuela.
A member of the ark shell family (Arcidae), the ponderous ark, Noetia ponderosa (Say, 1822), is common throughout the estuarine and nearshore waters of the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas of the United States (Abbott 1974, Anderson et al.