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SCRC: RTG: Laboratory visit to be trained to analyse oyster (Sydney Rock Oysters) histology sections, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, NSW

Project number: 2012-752
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Nicole Ertl
Organisation: University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Project start/end date: 26 Aug 2012 - 30 Dec 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925983-08-1
Author: Nicole Ertl
Final Report • 2012-12-31 • 163.23 KB
2012-752-DLD-RTG.pdf

Summary

While histology and its meaningful analysis are important skills to possess, most histological work conducted at the University of the Sunshine Coast heavily focuses on human histology, with some vertebrate histology, whereas knowledge about the analysis of oyster histology slides is lacking.

This grant allowed the student to visit the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute (EMAI) in NSW to learn the skills needed to histologically analyse oyster tissue.

SCRC: SCRC Honours Scholarship H4.1 Sustaining Australia’s aquaculture competitiveness by developing technological advances in genetics: Discovery of functional genes for commercial traits.(Abigail Elizur; Student Nicole Ertl)

Project number: 2009-776
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Abigail Elizur
Organisation: University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Project start/end date: 20 Dec 2009 - 20 Dec 2010
Contact:
FRDC

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925982-56-5
Author: Nicole Gertraud Ertl
Final Report • 2010-12-21 • 1.33 MB
2009-776-DLD-Hons.pdf

Summary

Body colouration, an important survival, mate selection and communication mechanism for animals in the wild, has also significant commercial implications. In aquaculture, a darker body colour in prawns can increase farm profitability by AU$ 2-4 dollar per kilo of prawns. Therefore, there is a strong commercial interest in increasing colour intensity of prawns grown in captivity. In this study, the focus was on F. merguiensis, and the determination of factors that could be involved in colour formation in this species.

Molecular techniques were employed to clone and isolate crustacyanin subunits, genes known to be responsible for colouration in other crustacean species, from the muscle/cuticle tissue of F. merguiensis prawns and to develop gene specific primers to quantify the levels of crustacyanin gene expression in the cuticle of prawns displaying three different colour phenotypes (albino, light and dark).

The sequences encoding for the crustacyanin subunits A and C were isolated from the cuticle tissue in F. merguiensis and their expression levels characterised in prawns displaying different colouration patterns.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-712
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Masters: Strategic Planning Practices used by Australian Wild Harvest Fishers

The small business sector is a foundational element of national economic performance and the provision of employment to millions of workers globally. There is considerable research literature regarding strategy and strategic planning in the context of large, small and micro businesses. However,...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-730
PROJECT STATUS:
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SCRC: Development of germ cell transplantation technology for the Australian aquaculture industry

The project was designed to explore the application of surrogate technology as an alternative broodstock system for the Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT). Surrogate technology, also known as germ cell transplantation, uses germ cells from a donor species, in this case SBT, and transplants them into a host...
ORGANISATION:
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
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