Teresa J. Newton

TL;DR: Pearly mussel research has begun to benefit from and contribute to current ideas about suspension feeding, life-history theory, metapopulations, flow refuges, spatial patterning and its effects, and management of endangered species.

TL;DR: Additional research is needed to understand interactions of life history, habitat, and long-term exposure to contaminants through water, pore water, sediment, and diet so that the risks of environmental exposures can be properly assessed and managed.

TL;DR: The results suggest that fluoxetine accumulates in mussel tissue and has the potential to disrupt several aspects of reproduction in freshwater mussels, a faunal group recognized as one of the most imperiled in the world.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into factors influencing the formation of mussel beds in a large river by creating a dimensionless parameter (shear stress ratio) combining shear force and substrate type.