Dear Mr. Wegmuller,

Those information could really help for my research study. Thank you very much and more Power to you, Sir!

Ethel Rose Ronquillo,

         Student

Ethel Rose,

Here are some links that might be of value to you.

The following paper is especially informative regarding Xylophaga, and is accessible as a full PDF from this link.  Also, I have linked to it through ResearchGate below, so you can just click on that and get the PDF.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098109002147

The methods you use for collecting and processing samples will depend on the specific questions you are asking.  Certainly the location of the adults within the wood burrows create a difficulty, but it is clear from some of the work that has been done (e.g., by Tyler et al. 2007 in link above) that this difficulty can be overcome.

I have also sent links of some work I've done with reproductive systems in another bivalve, Dreissena.

Best wishes,

Bruce

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022098181901714

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00785326.1979.10425501#.VUZcyJPudmw

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098109002147

Article Tyler P. A. , Young C. M. & Dove F. — Settlement, growth and...

Conference Paper Developmental and functional ultrastructure of oocytes withi...

Article Ultrastructural characteristics of the developing and ovulat...

Hello Ethel Rose:  Shipworm species reproduce in three basic modes: broadcast spawning, short term brooders and long term brooders. At least one species has dwarf males living in the gills of females. Are you interested in doing controlled experiments in a lab setting? If you put out wooden test panels in a port or the intertidal you can 'catch' some teredo by leaving out the panels for a few months.  I put out test panels in May and collect them in August, Oct, and December, but I live in Oregon, USA, and our shipworm (one local species) has breeding seasons controlled by water temperature.  Many of the Philippine shipworms may breed year round.   Test panels are very useful in looking at breeding seasons. Here are some papers. 

Nancy 

Dear Ethel

The attached article may be useful.

You should be able to collect several species if you put panels out. You will actually be able to see the brooded larvae when you open up panels you have exposed in the sea, if you leave them exposed for 3 months or more.

Best wishes

Simon