Xylotrophic bivalves: aspects of their biology and the impacts of humans

The broadcast spawning Caribbean shipworm, Teredothyra dominicensis (Bivalvia, Teredinidae), has invaded and become established in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

(2014) J. Reuben Shipway et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Diversity, environmental requirements, and biogeography of bivalve wood-borers (Teredinidae) in European coastal waters

(2014) Luísa MS Borges et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Morphological and Genetic Diversity of the Wood-Boring Xylophaga (Mollusca, Bivalvia): New Species and Records from Deep-Sea Iberian Canyons

(2014) Chiara Romano et al.   PLoS One

Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy in a wood-feeding mollusk

(2014) Roberta M. O’Connor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Debris in the deep: Using a 22-year video annotation database to survey marine litter in Monterey Canyon, central California, USA

(2013) Kyra Schlining et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Phylogenetic Patterns and Phenotypic Plasticity of Molluscan Sexual Systems

(2013) R. Collin   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Progenetic dwarf males in the deep-sea wood-boring genus Xylophaga (Bivalvia: Pholadoidea)

(2013) Takuma Haga et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

What is the main food source of the shipworm (Teredo navalis)? A stable isotope approach

(2013) Peter Paalvast et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Dartfish use teredinid tunnels in fallen mangrove wood as a low-tide refuge

(2013) IW Hendy et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests

(2013) Jonathan R. Thompson et al.   PLoS One

Bone-eating worms from the Antarctic: the contrasting fate of whale and wood remains on the Southern Ocean seafloor

(2013) A. G. Glover et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Submarine canyons as the preferred habitat for wood-boring species of Xylophaga (Mollusca, Bivalvia)

(2013) C. Romano et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The effects of submarine canyons and the oxygen minimum zone on deep-sea fish assemblages off Hawai'i

(2012) Fabio C. De Leo et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Investigating the taxonomy and systematics of marine wood borers (Bivalvia : Teredinidae) combining evidence from morphology, DNA barcodes and nuclear locus sequences

(2012) L. M. S. Borges et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Shipworms as a model for competition and coexistence in specialized habitats

(2012) H MacIntosh et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

At the bottom of the deep blue sea: a new wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca, Pholadidae,Xylophaga) from the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain (subtropical Atlantic)

(2012) Janet R. Voight et al.   ZOOSYSTEMA

Molecular phylogeny of Pholadoidea Lamarck, 1809 supports a single origin for xylotrophy (wood feeding) and xylotrophic bacterial endosymbiosis in Bivalvia

(2011) Daniel L. Distel et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Wood taphonomy in a tropical marine carbonate environment: Experimental results from Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas

(2011) E.A. Heise et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

(2010) C. Giri et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Life on wood – the carnivorous deep-sea mussel Idas argenteus (Bathymodiolinae, Mytilidae, Bivalvia)

(2010) Kurt W. Ockelmann et al.   Marine Biology Research

Diversity and reproduction of near-shore vs offshore wood-boring bivalves (Pholadidae: Xylophagainae) of the deep eastern Pacific ocean, with three new species

(2009) J. R. Voight   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Some observations on the tunnelling of shipworms

(2009) P. A. Board   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Seasonal abundance of the shipworm Neoteredo reynei (Bivalvia, Teredinidae) in mangrove driftwood from a northern Brazilian beach

(2008) Carlos S. Filho et al.   IHERINGIA SERIE ZOOLOGIA

Deep-sea wood-boring bivalves of Xylophaga (Myoida: Pholadidae) on the Continental Shelf: a new species described

(2008) Janet R. Voight   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM