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| Le Moullac, Gilles; Schuck, Lucie; Chabrier, Sebastien; Belliard, Corinne; Lyonnard, Pierre; Broustal, Floriane; Soyez, Claude; Saulnier, Denis; Brahmi, Chloe; Ky, Chin-long; Beliaeff, Benoit. |
| The objective of this study was to observe the impact of temperature on pearl formation using an integrative approach describing the rotation of the pearls, the rate of nacre deposition, the thickness of the aragonite tablets and the biomineralizing potential of the pearl sac tissue though the expression level of some key genes. Fifty pearl oysters were grafted with magnetized nuclei to allow the rotation of the pearls to be described. Four months later, 32 of these pearl oysters were exposed to four temperatures (22, 26, 30 and 34°C) for 2 weeks. Results showed that the rotation speed differed according to the movement direction: pearls with axial movement (AM) had a significantly higher rotation speed than those with random movement (RM). Pearl... |
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Palavras-chave: Magnetometer; Rotation speed; Nacre growth; Nacre thickness; Gene expression; Pmarg-Pif177. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00450/56196/57753.pdf |
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| Gueguen, Yannick; Czorlich, Yann; Mastail, Max; Le Tohic, Bruno; Defay, Didier; Lyonnard, Pierre; Marigliano, Damien; Gauthier, Jean-pierre; Bari, Hubert; Lo, Cedrik; Chabrier, Sebastien; Le Moullac, Gilles. |
| Cultured pearls are human creations formed by inserting a nucleus and a small piece of mantle tissue into a living shelled mollusc, usually a pearl oyster. Although many pearl observations intuitively suggest a possible rotation of the nucleated pearl inside the oyster, no experimental demonstration of such a movement has ever been done. This can be explained by the difficulty of observation of such a phenomenon in the tissues of a living animal. To investigate this question of pearl rotation, a magnetometer system was specifically engineered to register magnetic field variations with magnetic sensors from movements of a magnetic nucleus inserted in the pearl oyster. We demonstrated that a continuous movement of the nucleus inside the oyster starts after a... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster; Pearl rotation; Biomineralization. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38598/37127.pdf |
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| Le Moullac, Gilles; Soyez, Claude; Lyonnard, Pierre; Chabrier, Sébastien; Milhade, Leo; Gueguen, Yannick; Beliaeff, Benoit. |
| Non‐invasive functional exploration techniques can provide information on different aspects of general organism functioning and, unlike lethal or invasive techniques, allow individual organisms to be monitored for as long as necessary. For bivalves, a fairly wide variety of methods and instrumental means exist allowing physiology to be assessed on‐line while keeping animals alive and intact. The current range of non‐invasive techniques for bivalves consists of systems for measuring metabolic flows and valve activity, which can be used on bivalve molluscs for as long as an individual animal's characteristics (e.g. size) make this technically feasible. In this paper, we present some of these non‐invasive techniques with applications for pearl oyster and list... |
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Palavras-chave: Bivalve; Filtration; Pearl rotation; Respiration; Valvometry. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71161/69551.pdf |
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