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2008
Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc.
Southgate, Paul C, Lucas, J S
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Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc.
Southgate, Paul C, Lucas, J S
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Economics of Pearl Oyster Culture [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, the market situation of the pearl industry is examined and changes in its structure are related to new technologies. Differences in the industry’s socio-economic impacts are explored, sources of market supply are specified and factors involved in the marketing of pearls are given particular attention.
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Annotation of the Pearl Oyster Genome
Zoological Science, 2013The initial, manual annotation analysis of the pearl oyster genome is reported in the present issue of Zoological Science. Contributors represent a wide array of research fields, including bioinformatics, molecular and cellular biology, fisheries science, biochemistry, biomineralogy, molluscan biology, evolutionary and developmental biology, and ...
Kazuyoshi Endo, Takeshi Takeuchi
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2008
This chapter covers the culture methods used for pearl oysters during all stages of culture, from hatchery production to the husbandry of oysters "seeded" for pearl production. The major pearl culture industries have traditionally relied on oysters collected from the wild for pearl nucleus insertion. Adult pearl oysters are collected or, alternatively,
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This chapter covers the culture methods used for pearl oysters during all stages of culture, from hatchery production to the husbandry of oysters "seeded" for pearl production. The major pearl culture industries have traditionally relied on oysters collected from the wild for pearl nucleus insertion. Adult pearl oysters are collected or, alternatively,
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The Pearl-Inducing Worm in the Ceylon Pearl Oyster
Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 1924(1924). The Pearl-Inducing Worm in the Ceylon Pearl Oyster. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 37-53.
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Borrowed pearls, original oysters
Physics World, 1991Everyone who enjoyed Alan Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye will be happy that its success encouraged him to carry on with his collecting, and his publishers to issue the new enlarged version. I can't help wishing he had retained the original title, if only because this is not a dictionary of quotations in the canonical sense established by, for ...
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Pearl culture and pearl oyster cultivation
1967Few marine animals have yet been tamed and harnessed for man's use. Of these the bivalves have the greatest potential, and of the bivalves the pearl oysters are perhaps the most thoroughly exploited. Not only are they eaten and their shell put to use, but their nacre secreting properties are tapped to produce pearls by design, rather than by accident ...
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It Takes Oysters to Generate Pearls
Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 2022openaire +2 more sources
Pearls and oysters: an introduction
Journal of the African Literature Association, 2022openaire +1 more source
1962
The preparation of this preliminary list was undertaken to meet the needs of the present investigation of the Pearl Banks, Gulf of Mannar. The recent repopulation of the Pearl Banks has revived interest in Ceylon's pearls and pearl fisheries. Successful fisheries have been held recently and surveys of the Pearl Banks are carried out regularly.
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The preparation of this preliminary list was undertaken to meet the needs of the present investigation of the Pearl Banks, Gulf of Mannar. The recent repopulation of the Pearl Banks has revived interest in Ceylon's pearls and pearl fisheries. Successful fisheries have been held recently and surveys of the Pearl Banks are carried out regularly.
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