Sebastian Rock (Ph.D. Student) at Karlstad University and others from the Department oF Environmental and Life Sciences and Lund University, Department of Biology – Aquatic Ecology have recently published a review article entitled “Effects of parasitic freshwater mussels on their host fishes: a review”.

The findings are heavily biased towards Margaritifera margaritifera, a unique mussel not well suited for cross-species generalizations.

This paper is open-access and can be found at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36050917/

On 15-6-2021 Sebastian Rock will be giving a talk introducing his work on the host-parasite interactions of unionid mussels. Within the broader LifeConnects projects, this work will improve mussel conservation and reintroduction efforts of this little studied order of bivalves in Sweden and around the world.

The seminar starts at 13.15 and will be streamed live over Zoom. Contact Olle Calles (olle.calles@kau.se) to receive the zoom link to this seminar.