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Bangor Daily News
25 Mar 2024
“They take over like weeds ... In its larval form, spat floats around in the surface layers of water until coming into contact with something to which it can become attached — like a mussel rope — by using hair-like strings called byssal threads ... ....
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Chemistry World
11 Dec 2023
New understanding of byssal threads finds similarities with spider silk making them unlike any other mussels’ ... .
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WPTV
28 Aug 2023
SEBASTIAN, Fla. —   ;Just steps off of the city of Sebastian ’s shoreline, a working waterfront keeps the town's rich fishing history alive ... "It has been a complete rollercoaster," she said ... Green mussel, you can see the byssal threads," Mariano said.
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Interesting Engineering
24 Feb 2023
The strong attachment of mussels to rock surfaces is made possible because of their glue or their byssal threads ... inspired to create a synthetic polymer by mimicking the byssal thread of mussels.
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Traverse City Record-Eagle
31 Dec 2022
Sedentary mussels attach themselves to a surface and to each other by very strong byssal threads or “beards.” In the wild, mussels attach to each other in colonies off sea-washed rocks ... de-beard mussels — pull away their black threads ... saffron threads.
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Popular Science
22 Dec 2022
Tropico Photo ... In his case, the spot where the land meets the sea ... But what could that something be? ... Their larvae settle on the tufted strands of green algae and the byssal threads of adult mussels—heavily varied surfaces, and difficult to emulate ... .
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DailyTrib
03 Aug 2022
Picayune Magazine . Hired muscle can scrape, but not eradicate, invasive zebra mussels ... 08/03/22 . Suzanne Freeman ... He explained that mussels attach to surfaces with byssal threads, rootlike strings of protein that, when cut, can no longer reattach ... said.
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Yankton Daily Press
23 May 2022
They attach to hard surfaces because of the tuft of fibers located at the hinge of their shell called byssal threads. These threads produce powerful glue that anchors the mussel in place, with any hard ...
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The Observer
16 May 2022
While most other crofters are minding their fields for lambs, we are watching the water ... The mussels are spawning ... Photograph . Niamh Byrne ... Once the juvenile mussels attach their byssal threads to the rope, they might be the size of a grain of sand ... .
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