Corbicula an annotated bibliography 1774 2005

Xu, X., L. Qian, L. Zhang and Z. Yu. 1987. Dianshanhu hexian fanzhi zhouqi he zengzhi yanjiu [The reproductive cycle of Corbicula fluminea (Mueller) in Dianshan Lake, Shanghai]. Journal of Fisheries of China/Shuichan Xuebao, Shanghai 11(2):135-142. [Chinese with English summary]

The freshwater cham (Corbicula fluminea) is one of the important aquatic products in Dian Shan Lake (Shanghai, China). The age (length) of maturation, reproductive cycle and breeding season of the clam were studied. The breeding season is from June to September, and some of them continue to breed until the end of October. Optimum water temperature for breeding is from 25^oC -28^oC. Each individual can ovulate more than once. The age (length) of maturation is about 12-13 mm. As the length of individuals increases, the volume of the follicles, the age and sperms also increase in size and quantity. For the conservation of the resource, the best catch season is October so that the population will be maintained at a high level.
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Yabe, H., T. Nagao and S. Shimizu. 1926. Cretaceous Mollusca from the Sanchu graben in the Kwanto mountainland, Japan. Scientific Reports of Tohoku Imperial University, Geology 9(2):33 128.

Corbicula (Veloritina?) sanchuensis sp. nov. is described (p. 53) and figured (Pl. 17, figs. 8, 8a; Pl. 18, figs. 8 10, 17, 17a) from the Cretaceous Shiroi group, Bomeki, Ohinatamura, Minami Saku gun, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Yakushima, A. A. 1968. New late Cretaceous Cyrenidae from South Primorye. IN: New Species of Prehistoric Plants and Invertebrates of the USSR, B. P. Markovskii, Ed. Vyp. 2, Part I (Nedra, Moscow). pp. 254 256.

Yakushima, A. A. 1973. Early Cretaceous molluscs of the freshwater basins of the southern Primorye. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Institute Geologia (Biostratigraphiya Sbornik), N.S. 219:239 270. [Russian]

Yamada, K, A. Abe, and T. Sasaki. 1986. Glycolipid transfer protein from pig brain transfers glycolipids with beta linked sugars but not with alpha linked sugars at the sugar lipid linkage. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 879(3):345 349.

The glucolipid transfer protein purified from pig brain facilitates the transfer of various glycosphingolipids and glyceroglycolipids. The transfer of Man beta 1 Cer   4Glc beta and Man alpha1   4Man beta1   Cer isolated from Corbicula japonica, the transfer of 3 [Glc alpha1 ] sn 1,2 diacylglycerol and 3 [Glc alpha1   2Glac alpha1 ] sn 1,2  diacylglycerol prepared from Streptococcus lactis and the transfer of 3 [Glc beta1 ] rac 1,2 dipalmitylglycerol have been investigated. The transfer of these lipids from liposomes to mitochondria was assayed by the decrease of the lipids in the donor liposomes. These lipids were determined by chromatographic isolation of the lipids, acid hydrolysis of the isolated lipids, and subsequent determination of glucose in the hydrosylate. The glycolipid transfer protein facilitated the transfer of ManGlcCer and ManManGlcCer. The transfer protein did not facilitate the transfer of Glc alpha  diacylglycerol or Glc alphaGlc alpha diacylglycerol. However, the transfer of Glc beta dipalmitylglycerol was facilitated by the protein. These results strongly suggest that the glycolipid transfer protein has the specificity to the presence of beta linked glucose or galactose directly linked to either ceramide or diacylglycerol.

Yamamoto, G. 1959. Behavior and mucus secretion of Japanese marsh clam, Corbicula japonica Prime. Bulletin of the Marine Biological Station of Asamushi, Tohoku University 9(4):141 144.

Although young clams are found in restricted areas, adults are more widespread. While adults osmoregulate, the concentration of body fluids in young clams follows that of the external medium. Osmoregulation in adults is related to calcium metabolism, but in young clams a secretion of mucus occurs which may reduce movement of water across membranes. Secretion of mucus was activated by high densities, hypotonic or hypertonic sea water, a weakly acidified medium, and elevated temperature.

Yamamoto, G. 1977. Successional processes observed in the freshening brackish lakes of Shimokita Peninsula. Journal of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Tokai University 10:119 128.

Of some brackish lakes located on the Pacific Coast, Lake Takahoko showed a mesohaline character in 1953. Since a dam was constructed in the outlet canal in 1965, the chlorinity of the water decreased gradually, until it now shows exactly that of freshwater, i.e. 0.044 Cl ppt. The phytoplankton is composed entirely of freshwater species, but the dominant zooplankton is Sinocalanus tenellus and Neomysis intermedia, both of which are characteristic of brackish waters; some of the benthic invertebrates are also indicator species of brackish waters. In 1973 a crucian carp, Carassius langsdorfii appeared suddenly for the first time and occupied a cominant position among the fish species, together with Hypomesus and Tribolodon. The species diversity, estimated in the aquatic vegetation and phytoplankton shows a minimum value in Lake Obuchi (polyhaline brackish lake), then increases gradually with the decreasing salinity of the lake water in the order of Lakes Ogawara (mesohaline), Takahoko and Uchi numa (freshwater). Although food preference is segregated among the dominant fish populations in Lake Obuchi and growth rates of these fish are very high, the two dominant fishes in Lake Takahoko, Hypomesus and Tribolodon feed together on Neomysis, which has lower production than that of Lake Obuchi and therefore their growth indicates lower rates. Neomysis does not prefer freshwater phytoplankton, which are of higher production than that in Lake Obuchi, but ingests benthic invertebrates. A large standing biomass of phytoplankton remains as useless bioproduction in Lake Takahoko, since it is only ingested by the crucian carp. Corbicula japonica is also discussed in relation to the ecology and bioproduction of the lakes.

Yamamoto, G. and S. Matsumoto. 1955. Bottom communities in Hachiro gata, largest brackish lake in Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 16 19:406 410.

Bottom animals (including Corbicula japonica (martensi) and plants were collected in August 1952 at 15 stations in Hachiro gata using a modified Ekam Birge dredge. Bottom area sampled reached to l/4.4 m² in each station. The reciprocal relations of the individual number of the animal species in the station are represented by 15 series of correlation coefficients calculated between two stations. The series are classified by their form into four groups, each of which represents a characteristic bottom community.

Three biotic communities are obtained by the form of vector correlation coefficients calculated between each two stations taking into calculations the two components of the number of individuals of animals and of the weight of plants. The first and third communities correspond to the first and fourth animal communities, respectively, and the second of the biotic community by vector correlation includes the second and third animal communities which occupy the greater part of the lake. Bottom configuration of the animal or animal plant communities in the lake seems to depend upon the mixture of salt and fresh water.

Yamamoto, K. 1944. Katata Narrows portion of Lake Biwa (Studies on the biological fauna of the coastal region of Lake Biwa IV). Physiological and Ecological Contributions, Otsu Hydrobiology Experiment Station, Kyoto University 6:1 10. [Japanese]

The paper reports on a collecting trip of 7 July 1942 across the narrowest part of Lake Biwa covering a distance of 1700 m. Water temperature was 28.2^oC and pH varied from 7.4 on the surface to 6.6 at a depth of 4 m. Oxygen saturation, determined using Winkler's method, varied from 78% along the east coast to 98% at the west. Transparency of the water was 4.2 m at the middle to 3 m toward the shore. Corbicula sandai was found in sandy sunstrata using Birge's dredge. Other plant and animal species are listed.

Yamamuro, M. and I. Koike. 1993. Nitrogen metabolism of the filter-feeding bivalve Corbicula japonica and its significance in primary production of a brackish lake in Japan. Limnology and Oceanography 38(5):997-1007.

Uptake of particulate nitrogen and nutrient excretion by the filter-feeding bivalve Corbicula japonica in Lake Shinji was measured simultaneously by two methods: a continuous flow laboratory incubation with an intact sediment and an in situ measurement with a benthic chamber. The excretion rate of ammonium by C. japonica estimated from the in situ measurement exceeded the uptake rate of particulate organic nitrogen (PON), suggesting the involvement of bioturbation or other nonmetabolic process in the upward flux of ammonium. On the other hand, the results from the continuous incubation method agreed well with the growth rate of C. japonica under natural conditions. In the natural habitat of Lake Shinji, C. japonica excreted 4.5 mg-atoms N/m²/d as ammonium and 4.6 mg-atoms N/m²/d as feces and pseudofeces while taking up PON at a rate of 10.4 mg-atoms N/m²/d. These results suggest that C. japonica plays an important role in stimulating primary production by maintaining rapid recycling of nitrogenous material.

Yamamuro, M. and I. Koike. 1994. Diel changes of nitrogen species in surface and overlying water of an estuarine lake in summer: Evidence for benthic-pelagic coupling. Limnology and Oceanography 39(7):1726-1733.

Diel changes in the concentration of nitrogen species [ammonium, nitrite, nitrate, dissolved organic N, and particulate organic N (PON) and some biological parameters were monitored in the water column of Lake Shinji, a shallow estuarine lake in Japan. The sediment of the lake was densely inhabited by the filter-feeding bivalve Corbicula japonica. An overlying water sampler showed that PON at the sediment-water interface (less than a few millimeters above the sediment) was not depleted; nevertheless, active uptake of PON by C. japonica (10.4 mg-atoms N/m²/d) is reported. Dissolved and particulate N species showed vertically uniform profiles at night, which we attributed to nocturnal water mixing associated with cooling surface water. These observations suggest benthic-pelagic coupling between filter-feeding bivalves and phytoplankton which enables the removal of nitrogen from the eutrophic lake through fisheries yield of bivalves.

Yamamuro, M. and I. Koike. 1998. Concentrations of nitrogen in sandy sediments of a eutrophic estuarine lagoon. Hydrobiologia 386(1-3):37-44.

Concentrations of sediment organic nitrogen, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (ammonium, nitrite and nitrate), and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in sediments were measured at two sites in a eutrophic estuarine lagoon. One is a shallow aerobic site where macrobenthos are abundant and the other is a deep anaerobic site devoid of macrobenthos. Four species of macrobenthos (Bivalvia: Corbicula japonica, Annelida: Notomastus sp., Neanthes japonica and Oligochaeta sp.) were found in 8 sandy sediment cores collected at a shallow site in three succcessive summers. DON (170-1500 μg atom N l^-1) was the major constituent of dissolved nitrogen with 10 times greater concentration than ammonium (55-180 μg atom N l^-1) and 1000 times greater than nitrate (0.14-5.9 μg atom N l^-1) and nitrite (0.21-1.4 μg atom N l^-1). The ammonium content in anaerobic muddy sediments at the deep site (210-350 μg atom N l^-1) was higher than in aerobic sandy sediments, whereas DON was higher in aerobic sediments than anaerobic sediments (90-240 μg atom N l^-1). In aerobic sediments, depth profiles of DIN were nearly constant whereas DON was mostly highest at the surface. On the other hand, the increase of DON and ammonium was observed where macrobenthos was found. The occurrence of macrobenthos and high content of DON and ammonium content in the layers of sediment may suggest the influence of macrobenthos in the partitioning of nitrogen species through their motion and excretion.

Yamamuro, M., M. Nakamura and M. Nishimura. 1990. A method for detecting and identifying the lethal environmental factor on a dominant macrobenthos and its application to Lake Shinji, Japan. Marine Biology, Berlin 107(3):479-483.

A new method to single out the environmental factor limiting the life of any macrobenthic animal under stressed condition is proposed. The method is based on the assumption that the influence of each environmental factor on the life of a species can be expressed by an S-shaped function having lethal, limiting and non-limiting ranges, and the combined effect of several environmental factors is expressed by a multiple of these functions. To single out a lethal factor, we used the cumulative curve of abundance arranged in the order of each environmental factor. Comparison of these curves enables us to identify the most effective environmental factor limiting the life of a particular species and determine its effective range. Determination can be made from a single field observation without recourse to specially prepared experimental data if a sufficiently extensive survey was made in a field observation. The method was applied to the field data obtained from 248 stations at Lake Shinji, Japan, in the summer of 1982.

Yamasaki, H., H. Moriki, K. Kobayashi and M. Yoshioka. 1941. On the lymphophagic action of Corbicula (Corbicula sandai Reinhardt) extract. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica 31(1):22 44. [Japanese with English summary]

Intravenous injection of a water extract of the viscera of Corbicula in dogs greatly increased the thoracic lymph flow with increased protein content and decreased coaguability. This is due to increased pressure in the liver capillaries from contraction of the caval orifices of the hepatic veins. Some active substance is apparently liberated from the liver since the effects are more marked after intravenous injection.

Yang, R. 1989. Studies of immune recognition molecules in the freshwater clam, Corbicula fluminea. Master of Science Thesis, University of Oklahoma (Norman). ix+37 pp.

Yang, R. and T. P. Yoshino. 1990. Immunorecognition in the freshwater bivalve, Corbicula fluminea I. Electrophoretic and immunologic analyses of opsonic plasma components. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 14(4):385-396.

Plasma (cell-free hemolymph) from the freshwater clam, Corbicula fluminea, has been found to possess opsonizing activity which could be completely eliminated by preabsorption of plasma with aldehyde-fixed rabbit red blood cells (RRBC). The detergents, SDS and Chapso, consistently dissociated several major proteins (Mr 20, 40, 66 and over 200 kd) from opsonized RRBC. Moreover, a partial recovery of opsonizing activity was attributed to this pool of desorbed proteins after removal of detergent by dialysis. Some of these proteins failed to bind to RRBC if the plasma was pretreated with heat, EGTA or preabsorbed with RRBC. These treatments were also found to eliminated plasma-opsonizing activity. A monoclonal antibody raised against opsonized RRBC bound to several of the same proteins seen in SDS-PAGE and could block opsonin-mediated RRBC phagocytosis by clam hemocytes.

Yang, R. and T. P. Yoshino. 1990. Immunorecognition in the freshwater bivalve, Corbicula fluminea II. Isolation and characterization of a plasma opsonin with hemagglutinating activity. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 14(4):397-404.

Opsonizing and agglutinating activities of plasma from the freshwater clam, Corbicula fluminea , were found to be inhibited by the sugars, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (deoxy-Glu) and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine (GalNAc). The plasma opsonin/agglutinin was subsequently isolated by a two-step separation procedure. A plasma protein with an apparent molecular weight of 40 kd on SDS-PAGE under nonreducing conditions was found to possess both agglutinating and opsonizing activities. It was further shown to be composed of two identical 20 kd subunits associated through disulfide linkage(s). Although this protein shares some structural similarity with other bivalve opsonins, differences in native molecular size or subunit structure, agglutinating properties and/or sugar binding specificity support the current hypothesis that naturally occurring plasma opsonins of molluscs represent a heterogeneous group of proteins.

Yaroslavteva, L. M., V. A. Pavlenko and S. V. Fedoseeva. 1981. Correlation between cellular resistance to dilution of sea water of some marine mollusks and their acclimation to salinity. Soviet Journal of Marine Biology 7(1):51 57. [English translation from Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok) 1:54 60]

A correlation between the cellular resistance to dilution of seawater of some marine bivalve molluscs from sea regions with different salinity regimes and their ability for salinity acclimation was studied. It was established that the salinity limits for acclimation of the mollusc corresponds to the lowest border of the range of seawater concentration at which cells are not damaged. The cellular osmotic resistance may characterize the mollusc's ability to endure a decreased salinity and serve as an indicator of possible cultivation of species in regions with diluted seawater or colonization of these regions by them. The species studied include Glycymeris yessoensis, Venerupus japonica, Nuttallia olivacea and Corbicula fluminea.

Yavnov, S. V. and V. A. Rakov. 2001. Corbicula. TINRO-tsentr (Vladivostok, Russia). 146 pp.

Data on biological investigations of brackish bivalve mollusc Corbicula japonica, forming food congestion in sea lagoons and estuary of the south of Far East (Russia) are presented. Morphology, reproduction, development and growth features of molluscs are shown. The special attention is given to a craft and practical use of Corbicula. The questions of acclimatization and cultivation are discussed. The second part of the monography is devoted to results of study of Corbicula congestions in various reservoirs of the Southern Primorye, Sakhalin and Khabarovsk territory. The book is intended for the hydrobiologists, experts and businessmen in the field of a fish industry, and also can serve the reference manual for the students, postgraduate students and all readers interested in biology of molluscs.

Yen, T. C. 1984. Notes on land and fresh water mollusks of Chekiang Province, China. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 25(4):69 99.

Yokoyama, M. 1922. Fossils from the upper Musashimo of Kazusa and Shimosa. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 44(1):1 200.

Yokoyama, M. 1928. Mollusca from the oil field of the island of Taiwan. Reports of the Imperial Geological Survey of Japan 101:1 112.

Yokoyama, M. 1931. Neogene shells from Karafto and Hokkaido. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2, 3(4):185 196.

Corbicula (Corbicula) iburica sp. nov. is described (p. 194) and figured (Pl. 11, fig. 8) from the Neogene at Mukawa, Yufutsugun, central Hokkaido, Japan.

Yokoyama, M. 1932. Tertiary Mollusca from the coalfield of Uryu, Ishkari. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2, 6 (1):240.

Yoo, J. S. 1971. Fresh water Mollusca in Korea. Yonsei Reports on Tropical Medicine, Seoul 2:21.

Yoshino, T. P. and T. L. Tuan. 1985. Soluble mediators of cytolytic activity in hemocytes of the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 9(3):515 522.

Serum free hemocytes from Corbicula fluminea are sytolytic to mammalian erythrocytes (RBCs) as demonstrated in a hemoglobin release assay. The reaction is hemocyte dose  and temperature dependent, and is mediated by the release of soluble hemolytic factors from clam cells. Initiation of hemocyte secretory activity does not appear to require contact with target RBCs. The chemical nature of the secreted lysin(s) has not been determined; however, PAGE analysis of hemocyte extracts (lysates) reveals the presence of at least five peaks of lytic activity. This activity is sensitive to heat and proteolytic enzyme treatment, and can be removed by absorption with fixed, homologous RBCs. Thus, it is likely that the secreted hemocyte lysin is a heat labile protein that exerts its hemolytic activity by binding directly to target RBC membrane constituents.

You, Y., F. Lin and T. Liu. 1986. Artificial rearing of spats and receiving of natural spats of Corbicula fluminea. Transactions of the Chinese Society for Malacology 2:162 163. [Abstract in Chinese]

You, Y., F. Lin and T. Liu. 1986. Amino acids of Corbicula fluminea. Transactions of the Chinese Society for Malacology 2:165. [Abstract in Chinese]

Yu, C. 1971. Seasonal changes in the body weight and dry weight of Corbicula fenovilliana. Korean Journal of Zoology 14:163.

Yu, C. C., G. M. Booth, D. J. Hansen and J. R. Larsen. 1974. Fate of carbofuran in a model ecosystem. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 22:431 434.

Ring ¹⁴C  and carbonyl ¹⁴C labeled carbofuran (2,2 dimethyl 2,3 dihgydrobenzofuranyl 7 N methylcarbamate) were studied in a model ecosystem (that included Corbicula manilensis). Carbofuran was rapidly degraded in water. Carbofuranphenol, carbofuran, 3 ketocarbofuran, 3 hydroxycarbofuran and several other unknown spots were detected by thin layer chromatography (TLC) and autoradiography in ether extracts from water. Radioactivity in a NaOH trap rose steadily, accompanied by rapid loss of radioactivity in the water treated with carbonyl ¹⁴C labeled carbofuran. No parent carbofuran was found in living organisms. However, large amounts of the parent carbofuran were found in dead crabs (Uca minax) which died soon after application of the pesticides. Carbofuran was highly toxic to crabs, C. manilensis, Daphnia, and snails immediately after application to the model ecosystem, but all animals, except one crab, survived restocking 20 days later.

Yu, J., M. Liu, L. Hou, Q. Liu and D. Ou. 2004. The effect of caving macrobenthos on nitrogen cycling in tidal flat. Marine Environmental Science/Haiyang Huanjing Kexue 23(2):1-4.

The effect of Corbicula fluminea on the nutrient cycling in the Yangtze estuarine tidal flat was studied in the compared and simulated experiment. The findings showed that Corbicula fluminea affected mainly the transforms of nitrogen in the sediment-water interface by excretion and bioturbation. In aerobic condition, the activity of Corbicula fluminea resulted the accumulation of nitrate in the overlying waters, ammonium in the porewater and nitrite in the sediments.

Yueying, L. 1983. Progress on the study of medical Mollusca during the past thirty two years in New China. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Malacology 1:197 207. [Chinese with English summary]

The scientific works on the study of medical malacology produced during the past thirty two years report great achievements. The present reports the researches of distribution, taxonomy, ecology, and morphology of medically important molluscs. There are 51 species (including 8 new species) and 7 subspecies of non marine Mollusca that can serve as the intermediate hosts for parasite flukes of man and animals. Among them 26 species and l subspecies are found to be new intermediate hosts. These species belong to 2 classes, 12 families and 25 genera. Included is a Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774).

Young, D. F. 1958. Report on the Pollution Survey of the Tanshui and Keelung Rivers in the Taipei Municipal Area. Final Report, Taiwan Institute of Environment Sanitation P.H.A. 48 pp.