"Naked clams" as a source of food.
"It was the shipworms’ insatiable appetite for all things wooden that caught the attention of David Willer, a scientist who studies sustainable aquaculture at the University of Cambridge. [...] [T]he animals seemed to him an intriguing and promising candidate for a big problem: Helping to feed the world."
Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the destructive shipworm https://phys.org/news/2024-06-year-mystery-destructive-shipworm.html
First report of microbial #symbionts in the digestive system of #shipworms; wood boring mollusks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964830524000878
"a population of symbiotic #microbes, living in an overlooked sub-organ of the gut called the #typhlosole, have the ability to secrete the #enzymes needed to digest #lignin—the toughest part of wood."
