Virginia Tech: From Mollusks to Mountaintops - Working With Federal Agencies to Make Strides in Conservation Science
July 16, 2021
July 16, 2021
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 16 (TNSRes) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
On a remote corner of campus, in tanks and constructed ponds bubbling with fresh water, an unusual life cycle is taking place.
At Virginia Tech's Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Center, the process begins when female adult mussels release strings of larvae, called glochidia, into the water. Designed by evolution to lure fish closer by looking like food, these packets of larval mussel . . .
On a remote corner of campus, in tanks and constructed ponds bubbling with fresh water, an unusual life cycle is taking place.
At Virginia Tech's Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Center, the process begins when female adult mussels release strings of larvae, called glochidia, into the water. Designed by evolution to lure fish closer by looking like food, these packets of larval mussel . . .