ANATOMICAL REDESCRIPTION OF CYRENOIDA FLORIDANA (BIVALVIA, CYRENOIDIDAE) FROM THE WESTERN ATLANTIC AND ITS POSITION IN THE CYRENOIDEA

Anatomical redescription of Cyrenoida floridana (Bivalvia, Cyrenoididae) from the Western Atlantic and its position in the Cyrenoidea

Members of the small bivalve family Cyrenoididae inhabit brackish waters of the eastern and western Atlantic Ocean.Cyrenoida floridana (Dall, 1896) from the western Atlantic is poorly known aside from shell descriptions.A detailed shell and anatomical study of C.floridana is here presented and compared with available data for Cyrenidae and Glaucono

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Spare PRELI gene loci: failsafe chromosome insurance?

LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins encode conserved N-terminal mitochondrial signal domains and C-terminal (A/TAEKAK) motif repeats, long-presumed to confer cell resistance to stress and death cues.This prompted the hypothesis that LEA proteins are central to mitochondria mechanisms that connect bioenergetics with cell responses to stress a

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