Mass-mortality events of marine species can disturb the structure communities. While identifying causes mass-mortality is crucial for implementing recovery strategies, monitoring challenging in remote locations. Black-lip pearl oysters (Pinctada margaritifera) are farmed producing black pearls within atolls French Polynesia. Previous have resulted collapse and other species; however, conditions...

Pearl culture industry represents one of the dominant business sector of French Polynesia. However, it still entirely relies on unpredictable spat collection success. Our aim was to assess the influence of natural plankton concentration fluctuations on maturation and spawning of the black lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera, during a 4 months survey conducted in Ahe atoll lagoon. Plankton c...

The genomics of economically important marine bivalves is studied to provide better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying their different reproductive strategies. The recently available gonad transcriptome of the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera is a novel and powerful resource to study these mechanisms in marine mollusks displaying hermaphroditic features. In this s...