Longevity in Arctica islandica Environmental Constraints and Evolutionary Adaptation

• Main Authors: Philipp, Eva, Brey, Thomas, Abele, Doris
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctica islandica; Ocean quahog; White Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/15359/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.25517

The ocean quahog A. islandica is among the longest-lived and slowest growing of marine bivalves with maximum ages > 300 years (e.g. Schöne et al. 2003, 2004). The animals exhibit a unique behaviour of self-induced metabolic reduction, by seemingly at random burrowing under to anoxic sediment laye...