Intracellular Bacteria Associated with Winter Mortality in Juvenile Giant Clams, Tridacna gigas

The culture of giant clams at Orpheus Island, northern Queensland, at Tongatapu, Tonga and at Aitutaki, Cook Islands has been associated with mortalities of young clams during winter. To determine if there was any pathology in clams which did not die acutely from chilling, some of these clams were s...

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Published inJournal of invertebrate pathology Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 204 - 206
Main Authors Norton, J.H., Shepherd, M.A., Prior, H.C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.09.1993
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Invertebrates
Marine
Mollusca
Pathology
Tridacna gigas
Pacific Ocean
ISEW, Australia, Queensland, Orpheus I
Australia, Queensland
Tonga
Marine environment
Pathogenicity
Histopathology
Transmission electron microscopy
Bivalvia
Ultrastructure
Mortality
Bacteria
Intracellular
Invertebrata
Mollusca
Winter practicability
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Summary:The culture of giant clams at Orpheus Island, northern Queensland, at Tongatapu, Tonga and at Aitutaki, Cook Islands has been associated with mortalities of young clams during winter. To determine if there was any pathology in clams which did not die acutely from chilling, some of these clams were sampled. This report records the presence of an intracellular bacterium in the tissues of surviving Tridacna gigas clams.
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ISSN:0022-2011
1096-0805
DOI:10.1006/jipa.1993.1099