byssus thread造句

• Each one then crawls around until it finds a suitable location where it attaches itself with a byssus thread.
• On sandy bottoms, aggregations were often attached to large sand grains that were glued together with byssus threads.
• Other bivalves, such as mussels, attach themselves to hard surfaces using tough byssus threads made of keratin and proteins.
• If the substrate is suitable, the larva will metamorphoses into the juvenile form, plantigrade, and attach byssus threads.
• When they have passed through several developmental stages they settle to the seabed, undergo metamorphosis and attach themselves with byssus threads as miniature adults.
• The spiny fan-mussel lives with the pointed anterior end of its shell vertically anchored to rock or firm sediment by numerous byssus threads.
• It has been found experimentally that both crabs and starfish preferred molluscs that are attached by byssus threads to ones that are cemented to the substrate.
• Sea silk is a fine fabric woven from the byssus threads of bivalves, particularly the pen shell ( " Pinna nobilis " ).
• The byssus threads from this " Pinna " species can be up to 6 cm in length and have historically been made into cloth.
• Larvae stay in the water column for the next four to seven weeks before dissipating to the ocean floor, where they attach themselves to objects through byssus threads.
• Many species of mussels secrete byssus threads to anchor themselves to surfaces, with Families including the Arcidae, Mytilidae, Anomiidae, Pinnidae, Pectinidae, Dreissenidae, and Unionidae.