Abstract
Scallop aquaculture owes its commercial success to a global appreciation of the gastronomic delights of scallop striated adductor muscle. Early physiologists were also impressed by the high muscle to body weight ratio, the apparent purity of the fibres and the clarity of function of the two main adductor muscles. More recently, biochemists have shown that these muscles possess a mode of regulation that is closely related to mechanisms found both in vertebrate smooth muscles and in non-muscle cells; furthermore, because scallop myosins have been shown to possess unique physical properties making them ideally suited for biochemical manipulation, they remain a key model for studies on the function and regulation of muscle contraction. This chapter summarises current knowledge regarding the intricate structure of the muscles and their biochemical and physiological processes and function.
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