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How to use glochidia in a sentence

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Many mussel species depend on specific species of fish to serve as hosts for mussel larvae, or glochidia.
While encysted, the glochidia will metamorphose, allowing the organs to develop more like an adult's organs.
Zygotes develop within the mantle cavity and glochidia larvae are released in the early summer.
Unionid embryos spend the first stage of development in the marsupial portion of the female unionid's gills, where they develop into glochidia, the parasitic stage.
The mussel fauna, past, present, and future, of Sulfur Fork Creek and lower Red River, Tennessee, and laboratory transformation of glochidia.
The glochidia temporarily attach to fish, allowing mussels to distribute themselves upstream and downstream and among watersheds.
At mussel refuges, the risk to introduce pathogens is compounded by the need for host fishes for glochidia transformation.
Many unionoid species produce conglutinates, worm-like structures filled with glochidia, that resemble one of the foods in the host fish's diet.
In eating the conglutinate, the fish becomes infected with glochidia.
Weather conditions prevented data collection in the spring and, therefore, no conclusions could be drawn about the relationship between aggregation and glochidia release.
Glochidia were once believed to be parasites on the gills of the parents.
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