When mussels are mentioned, a nice plate of moules-frites might come to mind, but some bivalves are peskier than they are tasty. Dozens of mussel species living in both fresh and saltwater are a huge ...

Micro mixing: focussed ion beam–scanning electron microscope image and 3D reconstruction showing the secretion process of the protein vesicles (green) from the cellular tissue (yellow) into the lumen ...

Mussels are notorious maritime stowaways known for damaging the hulls of boats, but these same adhesive properties have widespread engineering applications, scientists say. They suggest that the ...

In the first part of the video, you see a marine mussel producing the byssal threads and glue plaques it uses to anchor itself to rocks and other mussels in the intertidal zones where it lives. The ...

A team of chemists at McGill University, working with a colleague from Charité-Universitätsmedizin, in Germany, has uncovered part of the process used by mussels to bind to rocks and to quickly ...

Mussels create byssal threads to attach themselves to rocks and each other. Mussels create byssal threads, known as the mussel's "beard," to attach themselves to rocks and each other. They use their ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass- Unlike barnacles, which cement themselves tightly to the surfaces of rocks, piers or ships, the clamlike bivalves called mussels dangle more loosely from these surfaces, attached by a ...