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Examples of byssus
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Byssus from some species has been made into a very fine cloth.
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This forms extremely tough, strong, elastic, byssus threads that secure the mussel to its substrate.
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Marine mussels are usually found clumping together on wave-washed rocks, each attached to the rock by its byssus.
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This is in no small part due to the evolution of the byssus, which mussels employ to tether themselves to accessible surfaces.
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The researchers conducted a detailed chemical analysis of the protective outer coating of the byssus in a common species of marine mussel.
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The individual byssal threads that compose the byssus are stiff, but stretchy and are fashioned by the mussel in a process resembling injection molding.
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In marine mussels, the foot is smaller, tongue-like in shape, with a groove on the ventral surface which is continuous with the byssus pit.
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Moreover, many other silk-like biomaterials such as elastin, collagen, byssus, resilin, and other repetitive proteins have similar features to spider silk protein.
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The initial contact with the substrate is loose, if the suitable the larva will metamorphoses into the juvenile form, plantigrade, and attach byssus threads.
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- Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- Byssus means both "a rare fabric, also called and its fibre source "a silky filament by which certain molluscs attach themselves to hard surfaces".
- An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, its use was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk; The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves ...
- Strong filaments, for attachment. Secreted by the foot gland. In bivalve molluscs.
- Bundle of threads secreted by certain shellfish (for example mussels) to attach themselves definitively or temporarily.
- Among the ancients, a linen, silk, or cotton cloth of exceedingly fine texture (used by the Egyptians in mummy-wrapping)
- BISS-uhs/ A tough strand of filaments attaching certain bivalves to their substrate.
- Elastic fibers (or calcified, in Anomiidae) secreted by a gland in the FOOT, exiting through a ventral BYSSAL GROOVE, and used to anchor the animal to a hard substratum (figures: Pteriidae, Pteria colymbus).
- Opening that byssus threads are issued from to attach the living shell to the substrate.
