Sentence examples for molluscs for from inspiring English sources

That tribe does not issue any per capita payments and has used its casino profits to diversify into other businesses, such as harvesting huge molluscs for export to China.

Opinions vary about the number of classes of molluscs; for example, the table below shows eight living classes, and two extinct ones.

Sequence alignments of oyster neuropeptide precursors with corresponding molluscan precursors show conservation only within the putative bioactive peptides; further investigation was needed to fully comprehend their diversity and evolution in molluscs (for review, see [ 12]).

Urochordates and molluscs, for which we applied the same level of technical effort, display very similar amplification results despite a very different phylogenetic distance relative to species which most influenced primer design.

The induction of heat shock or stress proteins represents a homeostatic defence mechanism of cells to metabolic and environmental insults, and this response has previously been demonstrated in molluscs, for example in oyster haemocytes in response to environmental stimulus [ 46].

Furthermore, we extend the known host range of the six viral groups to isopod crustaceans, as well as to molluscs for the family Nanoviridae (fig. 5) and flatworms for the Densovirinae (fig. 6).

The limited information on larval development suggests that dispersal potential may be highest for molluscs from cold seeps, intermediate for siboglinids at vents and lowest for the whale-bone siboglinid Osedax.

This paper presents results from the study of faunal remains from cave sites occupied by hunter-gatherers in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and of isotope analyses on shells of marine molluscs collected for food and on collagen from the bones of the hunter-gatherers buried in these caves.

Molluscs have, for centuries, also been the source of important luxury goods, notably pearls, mother of pearl, Tyrian purple dye, and sea silk.

There is much discussion about the developmental type of the Cambrian molluscs, see for example [ 52- 54].

In the Southern Ocean database, there were more distribution records for molluscs and echinoderms than for other invertebrates [16].