title: Reproductive Features of Indigenous and the Invasive Chinese Freshwater Mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Anodontinae) in Ukraine
abstract: Propagation processes of indigenous mussels of water reservoirs and water currents of Ukraine proceed inadequately. In Anodonta anatinа (Linnaeus, 1758), 100 % of female mussels reproduced in about 60 % of collection points, in the rest of collection points only 17-90 % of female mussels appeared to be “pregnant”, and in A. cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758) this number was about 50 %. In almost 70 % of collection points, A. cygnea and Pseudanodonta complanata Rossmassler, 1835 female mussels’ marsupia wer
journal: Vestnik Zoologii