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| Ky, Chin-long; Demmer, Jonathan; Sham-koua, Manaarii; Cabral, Philippe. |
| Production of larger, rounder, high-quality cultured pearls with fewer circles is one of the main challenges of Pinctada margaritifera aquaculture faced by every pearl farm in French Polynesia. Although bigger pearl sizes can be achieved through surgreffe operations (implantation of a second nucleus following pearl harvest), control of the development of pearl circles and shapes still remains unclear, as illustrated by grafter’s empirical rules, where often the surgreffe process is only performed after production of uncircled and round pearl shapes. The present study was designed with a real pearl by pearl traceability to reveal for the first time the development of circles and shapes from graft and surgreffe, in relation to the size of the pearl sac. This... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster; Pinctada margaritifera; Surgreffe; Circled pearls; Pearl shapes; Pearl sac. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00276/38690/37187.pdf |
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| Latchere, Oihana; Fievet, Julie; Lo, Cedrik; Schneider, Denis; Dieu, Stephanie; Cabral, Philippe; Belliard, Corinne; Ky, Chin-long; Gueguen, Yannick; Saulnier, Denis. |
| The present study investigated the effect of electrolysis on the biomineralization capacities of juveniles of the mollusk Pinctada margaritifera for the first time. Size-selected individuals from two groups, “Medium” and “Large”, from a multi-parental family produced in a hatchery system were subjected to electrolysis under a low voltage current over a nine-week experimental period. The growth of the juveniles was individually monitored and assessed weekly by wet weight and shell height measurements. At the end of the experiment, mantle tissue was sampled for biomineralization-related gene expression analysis. Electrolysis significantly increased pearl oyster growth in terms of shell height and wet weight for Large juveniles from the 5th and the 2nd week,... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster; Pinctada margaritifera; Electrolysis; Biomineralization; Gene expression. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00343/45410/44924.pdf |
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| Ky, Chin-long; Blay, Carole; Sham-koua, Manaarii; Vanaa, Vincent; Lo, Cedrik; Cabral, Philippe. |
| Individual Pinctada margaritifera molluscs were collected from the Takapoto atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia) and used to produce ten first generation full-sib families in a hatchery system, following artificial breeding protocols. After three years of culture, these progenies were transferred to Rangiroa atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia) and tested for their potential as graft donors. A large-scale grafting experiment of 1500 grafts was conducted, in which a single professional grafter used ten individual donor oysters from each of the ten families, grafting 15 recipient oysters from each donor. The recipient oysters were all obtained from wild spat collection in Ahe (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia). After 18 months of... |
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Palavras-chave: Cultured pearl oyster; Pearl quality; Progeny effects; Heritability; Genetic selection; Pinctada margaritifera; French Polynesia. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00152/26310/24380.pdf |
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| Ky, Chin-long; Blay, Carole; Sham-koua, Manaarii; Lo, Cédrik; Cabral, Philippe. |
| The top aquaculture species in French Polynesia is Pinctada margaritifera, a mollusc grown for the production of a unique gem: the black pearl. One of the challenges facing the pearl farming industry is to "produce less but better pearls" through genetic improvement. An experimental hatchery system was used to generate full-sib families to be tested for their potential as donor "oysters". A large-scale grafting experiments was done and seven cultured pearl quality traits: grade, surface defects, lustre, darkness level, visual colour categories, circles and shape categories were recorded. Our results revealed, for the first time, significant phenotypic relationships between these quality traits. The grade A cultured pearl class had the largest proportion of... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl "oyster"; Pinctada margaritifera; Donor "oyster"; Cultured pearl quality; Pearl grade; Pearl colour; Pearl shape; Selective breeding. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00190/30130/28592.pdf |
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| Latchere, Oihana; Mehn, Vincent; Gaertner-mazouni, Nabila; Le Moullac, Gilles; Fievet, Julie; Belliard, Corinne; Cabral, Philippe; Saulnier, Denis. |
| Environmental parameters, such as food level and water temperature, have been shown to be major factors influencing pearl oyster shell growth and molecular mechanisms involved in this biomineralization process. The present study investigates the effect of food level (i.e., microalgal concentration) and water temperature, in laboratory controlled conditions, on the last stages of pearl mineralization in order to assess their impact on pearl quality. To this end, grafted pearl oysters were fed at different levels of food and subjected to different water temperatures one month prior to harvest to evaluate the effect of these factors on 1) pearl and shell deposition rate, 2) expression of genes involved in biomineralization in pearl sacs, 3) nacre... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00428/54007/55223.pdf |
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| Ky, Chin-long; Blay, Carole; Aiho, Vaite; Cabral, Philippe; Le Moullac, Gilles; Lo, Cedrik. |
| In French Polynesia, the aquaculture of P. margaritifera is carried out in numerous grow-out sites, located over three archipelagos (Gambier, Society and Tuamotu). To evaluate the impact of macro-geographical effects of these growing sites on pearl quality traits, five hatcheries produced families were used as homogeneous donor oysters in an experimental graft. The molluscs were then reared in two commercial locations: Tahaa island (Society) and Rangiroa atoll (Tuamotu). At harvest, eight pearl quality traits were recorded and compared: surface defects, lustre, grade, circles, shape categories, darkness level, body and secondary colour and visual colour categories. Overall inter-site comparison revealed that: 1) all traits were affected by grow-out... |
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Palavras-chave: Pinctada margaritifera; Cultured pearl quality; Grow-out location; Environment. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00276/38687/37186.pdf |
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