Apport d'un programme de génétique à une filière de production aquacole : l'exemple de l'ostréiculture

Two oyster species are currently present along the French coasts : the indigenous European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the Pacific cupped oyster (Crassostrea gigas), that has been introduced from Japan since the beginning of the 70ies. The flat oyster successively suffered from two protozoan diseases during the 60ies and its production decreased from 20 000 tons/year by that time to 1 500 tons/year nowadays. Consequently, the oyster production is principally (99%) based upon the Pacific oyster species with approximately 150 000 tons/year among which 90% are grown from the natural spat. However, the hatchery production of this species is developing and was estimated to 400 to 800 millions spat in 2002. Moreover, strengthened relationships between IFREMER and the 5 commercial hatcheries, that all joined the SYSAAF (Union of the French poultry, shellfish and fish farming selectors), allow to plan for new genetic breeding programs. At the end of the 80ies, IFREMER initiated a genetic breeding program for the resistance of the European flat oyster to the bonamiosis, and obtained strains more tolerant to this disease. After two generations of massal selection, molecular markers had identified a reduced genetic basis in this program. It was then reoriented to an intra-familial selection. However, we were confronted to a zootechnic problem to manage such a scheme and we compromised by an intra-cohorts of families selection scheme managed using molecular markers. The program has now reached the transfer level with experimentation at a professional scale. Concerning the Pacific cupped oyster, and in parallel with the obtaining and the study of polyploids, performance of different Asian cupped oyster strains were compared to the one introduced in France thirty years ago and currently suffering from summer mortalities. The local strain exhibited better performance, certainly based upon a good local adaptation. In other respects, although early growth is a relevant criteria for selection for growth to commercial stage, it is not to be privileged in the context of an oyster producing region with a limited food availability. Contrary, the spat summer mortality became a priority for numerous teams (genetic, physiology, pathology, ecology,...) joined in the MOREST program. The first results showed important survival differences between fullsib and halsib families. They indicate a genetic determinism to this character "survival" and promote for its selection.

Etude pilote des apports en contaminants par la Seine : niveaux de contamination, variations saisonnières et flux d'éléments traces a poses en 1990 et 1991

Le présent rapport constitue une première présentation des résultats de l'Etude pilote des apports en contaminants par la Seine. Il est consacré aux métaux et à l'arsenic et traite de leurs niveaux de concentration, de leurs variations saisonnières et des flux à l'estuaire. Il comporte des fiches-annexes qui contiennent les méthodes de prélèvement, de filtration et de dosage ainsi que des résumés des résultats. A partir des conclusions, des recommandations sont faites quant aux méthodes à privilégier pour tirer les meilleurs enseignements du suivi des contaminants métalliques et de l'arsenic à la limite amont de l'estuaire de la Seine. Les données contenues dans ce rapport ont été produites par la Cellule de lutte contre la pollution (Service de navigation de la Seine), le laboratoire Chimie des contaminants et modélisation (IFREMER) et le Laboratoire municipal et régional de Rouen.

Allocation du carbone et métabolisme azoté chez l'haptophyte Tisochrysis lutea

The aim of this thesis is to improve knowledge on mechanisms involved in the response to nitrogen limitation and in lipid accumulation in the microalgae haptophyte Tisochrysis lutea. The wild type strain and a lipid accumulating mutant strain were grown under different nitrogen limitation and starvation and analyzed by functional genomics. Four genes of high-affinity nitrate/nitrite transporter (Nrt2) were identified and characterized to reveal the mechanisms involved in mineral absorption in this species. Transcriptomes of both strains were sequenced and proteins affected by nitrogen starvation and differentially expressed between the two strains were identified. We so identified the functions regulated by nitrogen deficiency and potentially involved in the accumulation of storage lipids. The responses of both strains to thin variations of nitrogen limitation were studied. The results of high-throughput proteomic analyzes suggest that the lipid-accumulation in the mutant strain is the result of carbon metabolism impacted overall, this spurred on signaling mechanisms. Two proteins have been studied since probably involved in carbon and nitrogen remobilization from amino acids catabolism during nitrogen limitation. This work increases knowledge on haptophytes, and brings assumptions on metabolic key involved in nitrogen limitation and carbon allocation in microalgae.