Therefore ongoing replacement of zebra
with quagga mussels in the Great Lakes Region relaxes Dreissena impact on native unionids.
Not exact matches
At the time, George had begun collaborating
with molecular biologist Allan Wilson, a colleague at Berkeley who had just cloned gene fragments from the 140 - year - old pelt of a
quagga, an extinct brown - and - white - striped zebra relative.
This depth tolerance, coupled
with the fact that
quaggas don't require a hard surface to attach to, means they can blanket vast swaths of lake bottom inaccessible to zebra mussels.
The ecological damage wrought by zebra mussels is minor compared
with their cousin, the
quagga mussel.
In a research paper «Complex replacement of invasive congeners may relax impact on native species: interactions among zebra,
quagga, and native unionid mussels,» lead author Lyubov E. Burlakova, research scientist
with the Great Lakes Center discusses the importance of understanding those interactions.
The last wild
Quagga was shot in the 1870s,
with the last one held in captivity dying in August of 1883.