Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Biological Sciences

Content Description

1 online resource (xiii, 102 pages) : PDF file, illustrations (some color), color map

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Daniel P Molloy

Committee Members

David A Shub, David L Strayer

Keywords

biopesticides, dreissenids, freshwater mussels, invasive species, Pseudomonas fluorescens, unionids, Zebra mussel, Quagga mussel, Pesticides, Biological invasions

Subject Categories

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Microbiology | Water Resource Management

Abstract

Since their introduction in the 1980s, dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. rostriformis bugensis) rapidly spread throughout North America and have had severe impacts on the ecology of freshwater ecosystems. A project was initiated in the early 1990s at the New York State Museum's Field Research Laboratory to discover and develop natural products to control industrial biofouling by dreissenid mussels. A strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens (Pf-CL145A), isolated from the sediment of a North American river, was found to be effective at killing dreissenids. The strain was patented for this use.

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