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Fig. 2. One valve of each mussel was fixed to a vertical nylon rod using cyanoacrylate glue, which was then suspended 6.5 mm above an acrylic plate. During each experiment, mussels gradually tethered themselves to the acrylic plate by producing byssal threads.





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