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Mussel Byssus Fibers

  • Reddy N
  • Yang Y
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2015), 187-191
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45136-6_41
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Abstract

Marine animals such as mussels produce fibrous attachments generally called byssus as shown in Fig. 41.1. Each thread in a byssus is about 2–3 cm long and about 100–200 μm in diameter [13Lin]. Byssal threads were reportedly woven into...

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Reddy, N., & Yang, Y. (2015). Mussel Byssus Fibers. In Innovative Biofibers from Renewable Resources (pp. 187–191). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45136-6_41

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