Development of juvenile culture techniques and testing of potential biomarkers of environmental stress in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
The freshwater mussel fauna of the Clinch River in Southwest Virginia has declined in recent decades, principally due to habitat degradation from poor land-use patterns and pollutants. A study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using river water in a flow-through culture system to rear j...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39679 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10052007-143826/ |