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The Mussel Project http://clade.acnatsci.org/mussel/index.html
These pages are by the same folks as above. Isn't it nice to know there are people who love the humble unios so much they dedicate their entire scientific life to them. Quote: |
<H3>Making the World a Better Place, One Mollusk at a Time.
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The MUSSEL Project (MUSSELp, for short) is an on-going study aimed at the global revision of the classification of the Unionoida, otherwise known as freshwater mussels. The two principle investigators of this work are Daniel L. Graf (DLG) and Kevin S. Cummings (KSC).
Toward this end, we are compiling an exhaustive database of all Recent unionoid species and genera described to-date. This database will eventually serve as the basis for a universal synthesis and revision of freshwater mussel taxonomy. Furthermore, we apply cladistic methods to test our hypotheses of evolutionary relationships. This allows us to use macroevolutionary pattern to test hypotheses of macroevolutionary process | </H3>
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