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Transcriptome analysis of biomineralisation-related genes within the pearl sac: host and donor oyster contribution.
Marine genomics - 1 Mar 2012
McGinty E L, Zenger K R, Jones D B, Jerry D R
Abstract excerpt
Cultured pearl production is a complex biological process involving the implantation of a mantle graft from a donor pearl oyster along with a bead nucleus into the gonad of a second recipient host oyster. Therefore, pearl production potentially involves the genetic co-operation of two oyster genomes. Whilst many genes in the mantle tissue have been identified and linked to shell biomineralisation in pearl...
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