Pinctada fucata
Molecular Cloning and Tissue Distribution of Troponin C from the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata
... [16] Takeuchi, T., Kawashima, T., Koyanagi, R., Gyoja, F., Tanaka, M., Ikuta, T., Shogu- chi, E., Fujiwara, M., Shinzato, C., Hisata, K., Fujie, M., Usami, T., Nagai, K., Maeyama, K., Okamoto, K., Aoki, H., Ishikawa, T., ...
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Sex-changing patterns of Akoya pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata)
... Cultivation of Japanese Akoya pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata) for pearl production is an important traditional marine industry in Japan, with a history of more than 100 years. The characteristics of cultured ...
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Ca2+ Induced Conformational Change of Troponin C from the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata
... oyster Pinctada fucata troponin C (Pifuc-TnC), revealing the possibilities that Pi- fuc-TnC and vertebrate muscle TnC play dissimilar roles in muscle contrac- ...
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Tropomyosin Isoform Expression in the Adductor Muscle of the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata
... oyster Pinctada fucata (Pifuc-TnC), and revealed that it is distributed only in phasic muscle, suggesting that troponin does not participate in the regu- lation of catch contraction ...
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Molecular Cloning and Tissue Distribution of Troponin I from the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata
... from Pinctada fucata and Japanese scallop Chlamys nipponensis showing the positions of predicted motif structures predicted by SMART, Pfam, and the Eukaryotic Linear Motif ...
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Calponin Isoform Expression in the Japanese Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata
... oyster, Pinctada fucata (Pifuc-CP-1, Pifuc-CP-2 and ...P. fucata cal- ponin isoforms showed that Pifuc-CP-1, Pifuc-CP-2, Pifuc-CP-3 and Pi- fuc-CP-4 have identical CH domain sequences, whereas ...
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Synergistic Biomineralization Phenomena Created by a Combinatorial Nacre Protein Model System
... RING domain 31-66, chemically synthesized form = cAP713-15 and the pearl-associated nacre protein, PFMG1 Pinctada fucata, 116 AA, pseudo-EF hand domain 61-110, bacterial recombinant form[r] ...
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Improving the quality of pearls from Pinctada maxima
... The ability to regenerate new tissue from wounds is essential for survival. This capability is a common phenomenon in metazoans (Alvarado, 2000; Bekkum, 2004), however, extensive studies on tissue regeneration in pearl ...
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Evaluation of selected substrates for collection of hatchery reared black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera) spat
... juvenile P. maxima, string, nylon thread, bamboo, and bivalve shells. However, metamorphosis failed in all cases and no spat were produced. Consequently preference of type of collector was not reported. Alagarswami et ...
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Microsatellite variation in Australian and Indonesian pearl oyster Pinctada maxima populations
... between Pinctada fucata (Gould, 1850), Pinctada albina (La- marck, 1819) and Pinctada maculata (Gould, 1850) populations in Japan, between sites <100 km apart (Wada ...of Pinctada ...
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Improving the quality of pearls from Pinctada maxima
... Chen, L., Xie, L., Dai, Y., Xiong, X., Fan, W., Zhang, R., 2004. Cloning and characterization of an mRNA encoding a novel G protein (alpha)-subunit abundant in mantle and gill of pearl oyster Pinctada ...
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Spatio-temporal factors affecting the growth of cultured silver-lip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima (Jameson) (Mollusca: Pteriidae) in West Papua, Indonesia
... Chromosome manipulation by producing triploids through chemical or physical means has been studied as a means of retarding or stopping gonad development in favour of growth in aquaculture. Triploid animals can be ...
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Synergistic Biomineralization Phenomena Created by a Combinatorial Nacre Protein Model System
... RING domain 31-66, chemically synthesized form = cAP713-15 and the pearl-associated nacre protein, PFMG1 Pinctada fucata, 116 AA, pseudo-EF hand domain 61-110, bacterial recombinant form[r] ...
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Impact of Selected Environmental Pollutants on the Ultrastructure of the Gills in Pinctada radiata from Coastal Zones, Egypt
... oysters Pinctada imbricata is high- ly dependent on the speciation or physicochemical forms of the metals in seawater ...of Pinctada radiata (Bivalve) exposed to pollution and collected from Alexandria ...
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Genome-wide comparisons reveal evidence for a species complex in the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera (Bivalvia: Pteriidae)
... Following the receipt of genotype data from DArT PL, the SNP dataset was initially filtered using a custom Python script (https://github.com/esteinig/dartQC). This script retained only a single informative SNP (deter- ...
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Improving the quality of cultured round pearls produced by Pinctada margaritifera in Fiji (Linnaeus, 1758)
... The pearl industry is recognised as one of the most profitable in the aquaculture sector. In many countries it makes up a large segment of the aquaculture sector and in French Polynesia for example, it is the second ...
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The Ancient Shells Were Studied by X-ray Diffraction and Electron Probe
... Pinctada nigra Shell periostracum 100% Haliotis diversicolor shell 29.92% Modern Corbicula fluminca shell prismatic laye 0 All prismatic layers of pearl shells contain less tha[r] ...
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A high-density SNP genetic linkage map for the silver-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima: a valuable resource for gene localisation and marker-assisted selection
... The extent of segregation distortion throughout the P. maxima linkage map was investigated to determine their influence on marker order and mapping distances and to determine if markers exhibiting distortion clus- tered ...
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Genomic resources and genetic dissection of complex quantitative traits in the silver-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima
... P. fucata) are key calcium-binding proteins that specifically bind aragonite crystals and regulate nucleation and precipitation during nacre formation (Liu et ...P. fucata sequences (Kinoshita et ...
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Growth and survival of the pearl oyster Pteria hirundo (L ,1758) in an intermediate stage of culture in Santa Catarina, Brazil
... MONTEFORTE, M., ALDANA, C., BERVERA, H., PEREZ V., RAMÝREZ JJ., SAUCEDO, P. and WRIGHT H., 1996. Effects of biofouling on growth and survival of pearl oysters Pteria sterna and Pinctada mazatlanica during nursery ...
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