...   22 , 229 - 250 . Braby   C. , Somero   G. ( 2006a ). Ecological gradients and relative abundance of native (Mytilus trossulus) and invasive (Mytilus galloprovincialis) blue mussels in the California hybrid zone . Mar. Biol.   148 , 1249 - 1262 . Braby   C. E. , Somero   G...

... stress due to extreme precipitation events and freshwater runoff may be driving some of the reported recent range shifts in marine organisms. Using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and tandem mass spectrometry, we characterized the proteomic responses of the cold-adapted blue mussel Mytilus trossulus...

... climate change cold stress heat stress Mytilus galloprovincialis Mytilus trossulus proteomics systems biology temperature Temperature strongly affects rates of physiological processes and the integrity of macromolecular structures in cells, and thus plays an important role in limiting...

... success. The mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis , a native of the Mediterranean Sea, is a successful invader on the central and southern coasts of California, where it has largely displaced the native congener, Mytilus trossulus . It has been previously shown that thermal responses of several physiological...

...Lars Tomanek; Marcus J. Zuzow SUMMARY The Mediterranean blue mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis , an invasive species in California, has displaced the more heat-sensitive native congener, Mytilus trossulus , from its former southern range, possibly due to climate change. By comparing the response...

...Caren E. Braby; George N. Somero SUMMARY The three species of blue mussels, Mytilus trossulus Gould 1850, M. edulis Linnaeus 1758 and M. galloprovincialis Lamarck 1819, have distinct global distribution patterns that are hypothesized to reflect differences in their tolerances of temperature...

... as a function of the recent thermal history of an organism. To elucidate the mechanism by which this plasticity in gene expression is achieved, we determined heat-shock protein (Hsp) induction threshold temperatures in the intertidal mussel Mytilus trossulus collected from the field in February and again...

...Gretchen E. Hofmann; George N. Somero ABSTRACT We examined the seasonal variation in environmentally induced protein damage in natural populations of the intertidal mussel Mytilus trossulus . In order to compare the state of protein pools during seasonal variations in environmental temperature, we...