Bitterling Larval Development Stages and Tubercle Morphology

Direct evidence of minute tubercles on bitterling larvae as an adaptation to prevent premature ejection from host mussels. The dataset likely contains detailed developmental stage data, tracking tubercle formation, growth, peak, reduction, and disappearance over 27 days post-hatching. It was authored by Hyeong Kim and sourced from the paperswithcode platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling larval development stages based on days post-hatching
• Analyzing morphological trait evolution based on tubercle height changes
• Studying host-parasite co-evolution based on larval migration within mussel gills

Strengths

• Provides a detailed 27-day timeline of larval development stages
• Describes specific morphological changes, including tubercle height peaks and reductions

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Likely contains results from a controlled laboratory experiment analyzing Rhodeus pseudosericeus larvae.