Invasive Mussels

Technical Documents

The results of several invasive mussel research projects were featured in the Fall 2015 and Spring 2018 issues of The Knowledge Stream magazine. For additional information about mussel research at Reclamation please visit the Science and Technology Program website. The results of several Reclamation research projects have also been published in peer reviewed journals:

• Archive
• Pucherelli, S.F., R. Claudi, T. Prescott. 2018. Control of biofouling in hydropower cooling systems using HOD ultraviolet light. Management of Biological Invasions 9(4): 451-461.
• Lindsay, D.L., J.A. Keele, S.F. Pucherelli, R.F. Lance. 2018. Patterns of genetic structure among invasive southwestern United States quagga mussel (Dreissena rostiformis bugensis) populations. The Southwestern Naturalist, 63(1): 26-33.
• Pucherelli, S.F. and R. Claudi. 2017. Evaluation of the effects of ultra-violet light treatment on quagga mussel settlement and veliger survival at Davis Dam. Management of Biological Invasions 8(3): 301-310.
• Hosler, D.M. Where is the body? Dreissenid mussels, raw water testing, and the real value of environmental DNA. Management of Biological Invasions 8(3): 335-341
• Pucherelli, S.F., J. Keele, Y.J. Passamaneck, J.R. Beaver, R. Renicker. 2016. Range expansion of the invasive hydroid, Cordylophera caspia (Pallas, 1771), in Colorado River reservoirs. Bioinvasions Records 5(3): 133-137.
• Wong, W.H. and S.L Gerstenberger, Editors. 2015 Biology and Management of Invasive Quagga and Zebra Mussels in the Western United States. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., Boca Raton Florida. Nelson H.B. Spaulding, S. O’Meara, K. Bloom, S. Pucherelli, and D.M. Hosler. Chapter 11. “Automated Method for Dreissenid Veliger Detection, Identification, and Enumeration.”
• Carmon, J., J.A. Keele, S.F. Pucherelli, D. Hosler. 2014. Effects of buffer and isopropanol alcohol concentration on detection of quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) birefringence and DNA. Management of Biological Invasions 5(2): 151-157.
• Pucherelli, S.F., D.E. Portz, K. Bloom, S. Brenimer, J. Carmon, and D. Hosler. 2014. Quagga Mussel Contamination of Fish Haul Trucks by Fish, and Development of Effective Potassium Chloride and Formalin Treatments. Journal of Applied Aquaculture 26 (2): 132-148.
• O’Meara, S, D. Hosler, S. Brenimer, S.F. Pucherelli. 2013. Effect of pH, ethanol concentration, and temperature on detection of quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) birefringence. Management of Biological Invasions 4(2): 135-138.
• Hosler, D.M. 2011. Early detection of dreissenid species: Zebra/Quagga mussels in water systems. Aquatic Invasions 6(2): 217-222.