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Polyphenol oxidase is an enzyme found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, [31] including most fruits and vegetables. [32] PPO has importance to the food industry because it catalyzes enzymatic browning when tissue is damaged from bruising, compression or indentations, making the produce less marketable and causing economic loss.
Margaritifera auricularia is a species of European freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.Formerly found throughout western and central Europe, the species is now critically endangered and is one of the rarest invertebrates worldwide, being confined to a few rivers in Spain and France.
22173 Ensembl ENSG00000077498 ENSMUSG00000004651 UniProt P14679 P11344 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000372 NM_011661 NM_001317397 RefSeq (protein) NP_000363 NP_001304326 NP_035791 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 89.18 – 89.3 Mb Chr 7: 87.07 – 87.14 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Tyrosinase is an oxidase that is the rate-limiting enzyme for controlling the production of melanin. The ...
Perna canaliculus, [a] the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, also known as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). P. canaliculus has economic importance as a cultivated species in New Zealand.
A mussel (genus Mytilus), attached to a rock by its byssus Illustration of the byssus of Dreissena polymorpha, the freshwater zebra mussel. A byssus (/ ˈ b ɪ s ə s /) is a bundle of filaments secreted by many species of bivalve mollusc that function to attach the mollusc to a solid surface.
Mytilopsis leucophaeata is found in brackish water, at salinities ranging from 0.5 psu to about 12 psu, although its upper salinity limit is usually about 5–6 psu.It attaches to hard substrates, including oyster and true mussel shells and cages for them, rocks, boats, and pilings, and also to ropes.
The larvae, or glochidia, of Unionidae are known to use the gills, fins, or skin of a host fish for nutrients during their development. Ptychobranchus fasciolaris enclose their glochidia in a membranous capsule called a conglutinate that resembles an insect larva or small fish.
Perna viridis, known as the Asian green mussel, is an economically important mussel, a bivalve belonging to the family Mytilidae, or the "true mussels". It is harvested for food but is also known to harbor toxins [ citation needed ] and cause damage to submerged structures such as drainage pipes.