How To Use byssus In A Sentence
- By the time the shells are mature, they have lost the byssus anchor and are found loose on the ocean floor.
- These strategically placed threads form a bundle called the byssus, which tethers the mussel to its new home in much the same way that guy ropes hold down a tent. WN.com - Articles related to Sea secrets - over 5,000 new marine species found
- The byssus is unknown to us, but the stuffs of Lyons are more valuable. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Linen fabrics (Byssus) were as marketable in China as were silk fabrics in the west.
- Aquila In nubibus Imperator literatorum, columen literarum, abyssus eruditionis, ocellus Europae, Scaliger. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Limnoperna fortunei can attach to the inner walls of raw water pipe by thread-like byssus and reproduced rapidly, resulting in clogging of pipe and valves.
- Exactly how these proteins link together to give the material, called byssus, its strength has remained unclear.
- Further details on byssus formation mostly in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, can be found in numerous reviews on the subject.
- The soft parts of bivalves are divided into five groups: mantle or pallium, gills, foot and byssus, muscles, and visceral mass.
- The primary source of this variation is not the number of threads present in the byssus, but rather, their thickness.
