Oyster species suffer from numerous disease outbreaks, often causing high mortality.
Because the environment cannot be controlled, genetic improvement for disease resistance …

Oysters are one of the most commercially important shellfish species and have been
cultured for thousands of years. Oyster aquaculture supports the major aquaculture …

Triploid bivalves, specifically oysters, have become an increasingly popular aquaculture
product over the last 3 decades due to their superior growth and meat quality. Despite a …

Polyploidy, the inheritance of more than two genome copies per cell, has played a major
role in the evolution of higher plants. Little is known about the transition from diploidy to …

High levels of mortality in Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas in the Republic of Ireland were
recorded during the summer of 2009. The new variant of Ostreid herpes 1 (OsHV-1μVar) …

Around 34 years ago, the first reports on the performance of triploid oysters were published.
Since then, triploid oysters have offered many benefits to the oyster industry, such as faster …

Abstract In 2010 Ostreid herpesvirus-1 (OsHV-1) was detected in Australia and had a
disastrous impact on Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas aquaculture and coastal communities …

Diploid and triploid Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, were tested at 3 sites
characterized by low or moderate salinity regimes in the Virginia part of the Chesapeake …

Climate change, represented by rising and fluctuating temperature, induces systematic
changes in marine organisms and in their bacterial symbionts. However, the role of host …

We compared the temporal dynamics of gametogenesis in diploid and triploid Pacific oysters
(Crassostrea gigas) using histology. Oysters were reared in an estuarine farming site in …