The Pacific oyster
High Genetic Load in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas
... the Pacific oyster negative correlation between somatic aneuploidy and growth in (Crassostrea gigas): selection and null ...the oyster Crassostrea gigas and implications for the effects ...
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Calcium transport in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas - in a changing environment
... 1. INTRODUCTION In this thesis, I will investigate the underlying mechanisms of bivalve calcium mobilization for shell growth. Anthropogenically driven climate change is an increasing global problem. Marine molluscs have ...
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Characterization of genes involved in ceramide metabolism in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas)
... the inflammatory response in Homo sapiens dermal fibroblasts by stimulating interleukin-1 mediated pros- taglandin E2 production [9]. While the role of ceramide as a signaling molecule in response to stress has been well ...
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Nervous system development in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas (Mollusca: Bivalvia)
... the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas using 5-HT and FMRFamide antibodies, as well as VAChT antibodies for detection of cholinergic neurons (a first in ...
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Linkage Maps of Microsatellite DNA Markers for the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas
... Accepted for publication May 10, 2004 ABSTRACT We constructed male and female consensus linkage maps for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, using a total of 102 microsatellite DNA markers typed in ...
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Sequence composition underlying centromeric and heterochromatic genome compartments of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
... Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain 4 Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK * Correspondence: [email protected] (M.P.); ...
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Disruption of amylase genes by RNA interference affects reproduction in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
... Huvet, A., Normand, J., Fleury, E., Quillien, V., Fabioux, C. and Boudry, P. (2010). Reproductive effort of Pacific oysters: a trait associated with susceptibility to summer mortality. Aquaculture 304, 95-99. ...
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Response of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, Thunberg 1793, to pesticide exposure under experimental conditions
... Pesticide run-off into the ocean represents a potential threat to marine organisms, especially bivalves living in coastal environments. However, little is known about the effects of environmentally relevant ...
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THE EFFECTS OF 4-NONYLPHENOL ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF THE PACIFIC OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA GIGAS, FOLLOWING BACTERIAL INFECTION (VIBRIO CAMPBELLII)
... 2.4 Discussion In the current study, we examined how 4-nonlyphenol, a known xenoestrogenic contaminant, may be discernibly altering immunocompetence in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, an aquaculture ...
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Effect of culture depth on the proximate composition and reproduction of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas from Gosung Bay, Korea
... The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is widely cultured along the southern coast of Korea, where a number of small, shallow bays (mostly < 10 m in depth) are protected by numerous ...system. ...
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Isolation and 18S ribosomal DNA gene sequences of Marteilioides chungmuensis (Paramyxea), an ovarian parasite of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
... the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Comps et ...rock oyster Saccostrea glomerata (= ...rock oyster (Hine & Thorne ...for oyster fisheries in Japan, because infected oysters ...
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Introduction, establishment and expansion of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas in the Oosterschelde (SW Netherlands)
... c oyster Crassostrea gigas was W rst introduced as an exotic species by oyster farmers in 1964 in the Oosterschelde estuary (SW ...oysters. Oyster beds in intertidal and subtidal areas of the ...
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Biomineralization related specialization of hemocytes and mantle tissues of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas
... clear. Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) were used to study differences in the expression profiles of selected biomineralization-related genes in hemocytes and mantle cells, and the functional characteristics of ...
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Characterization of an evolutionarily conserved calcitonin signalling system in a lophotrochozoan, the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas)
... Interestingly, none of the Cragi-CTa-types (C9/8XC motif ) was found to activate the three tested receptors. We assume that among the phylogenetically more distantly related receptors identified in this study are ...
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Early gametogenesis in the Pacific oyster: new insights using stem cell and mitotic markers
... ABSTRACT While our knowledge of bivalve gametogenesis has progressed in recent times, more molecular markers are needed in order to develop tissue imaging. Here, we identified stem cell and mitotic markers to further ...
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Expression of overdominance for specific activity at the phosphoglucomutase-2 locus in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas.
... If an inactive or lost Pgm-2 allele is responsible for depressing the enzyme activities of genotypes scored as homozygotes, no significant differences are expected between h[r] ...
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Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Stage-Specific Inbreeding Depression in the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas
... experimental oyster cultures? Oysters, in general, show high early mortality (type-III survival) both in the wild (Korringa 1946) and in culture (Guo and Allen ...
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Spatio-temporal variations in biological performances and summer mortality of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas in Normandy (France)
... Veys, oyster mortality showed a strong seasonal variation, and the highest rates were recorded from July to October in both ...studied oyster batches and most of the professional ...
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Rapid mitochondrial adjustments in response to short term hypoxia and re oxygenation in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
... the oyster Crassostrea gigas can experience marked and rapid oxygen ...of oyster gill mitochondria to short-term hypoxia (3 and 12 h, at ...of oyster mitochondria in response to oxygen ...
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Several strains, one disease: experimental investigation of Vibrio aestuarianus infection parameters in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
... contaminated oyster placed into 350 mL of seawa- ter can release 5 to 10 × 10 5 bacteria/mL in 24 h, and the LD50 was estimated at 1 × 10 5 ...infected oyster can pass the infection to at least one other ...
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