When it comes to cooking mussels, be sure you do justice to the tender, chewy texture of these mollusks by taking the extra step of debearding them. These beards, also known as byssal threads ...

In the first part of the video, you see a marine mussel producing the byssal threads and glue plaques it uses to anchor itself to rocks and other mussels in the intertidal zones where it lives.

Mussels (Mytilus trossulus) attach to substratum with byssal threads. Photo: Emily Carrington, University of Washington. Ocean acidification-- which occurs when the ocean absorbs more carbon ...

Both zebra and quagga mussels invaded the Great Lakes ... The presence of connecting threads—protein threads called byssal threads— indicated earlier infestation. The most important finding ...