For centuries, humans pursued the "fountain of youth" in the quest for longer lives. More recently, curiosity has been reignited among the scientific community thanks to genome sequencing technologies ...

Hypersalinity is a condition in which water contains a high concentration of salt. In soft reservoirs, the concentration of salt is not high, and in hypersaline water the percentage of salt is 40% and ...

As the total worldwide fisheries yield from exploitation of wild stocks has declined, the production from mariculture, defined as the cultivation of organisms in their natural marine environment, has ...

Bivalve aquaculture has attracted interest both as a source of sustainable protein and for its potential role in coastal carbon dynamics. As filter feeders, oysters, mussels and clams remove ...

Before the worst mass extinction of life in Earth’s history – 252 million years ago – ocean life was diverse and clam-like organisms called brachiopods dominated. After the calamity, when little else ...

Connecticut College Associate Professor of Biology Maria Rosa is featured in this month’s BioOne Vista collection for her recent review on suspension-feeding bivalves and their role in aquatic ...

As understanding has grown of how seriously ocean ecosystems have been degraded by extractive fisheries and as many fisheries have proven unsustainable, attention has turned to mariculture, including ...