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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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| 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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