學(xué)一個英語表達(dá)：The world is my oyster ｜莎翁妙語_世界

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學(xué)一個英語表達(dá)：The world is my oyster ｜莎翁妙語

2020-06-12 03:04

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原標(biāo)題：學(xué)一個英語表達(dá)：The world is my oyster ｜莎翁妙語

大家好，我是學(xué)姐。

今天來講一個看起來有些奇怪，但又很有意思的表達(dá)：

The world is my oyster.

世界是我的"oyster"，這到底是什么鬼？

Oyster，翻譯到中文是"牡蠣"的意思。

牛津高階

Oyster 是重要的海洋生物資源，它的外層是兩個凹凸不平的硬殼，用刀子敲開之后可以吃到鮮美的蚌肉。

牛津高階

不知大家有買過生的牡蠣回家自己烹制嗎？Oyster 的外殼通常閉的非常緊，想要自己敲開的話是非常困難的，經(jīng)常會被拉破雙手，鮮血直流。

也正因如此，Oyster 一詞在英語中還被用來指代"沉默寡言的人；閉口不言的人"。

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The boy was dragged off to the police station，but he remained oyster.

那個小伙子被拉到警察署，但他一直咬緊牙關(guān)不說話。

The world is my oyster（世界是我的牡蠣），是莎士比亞的名言之一，它出自莎翁戲劇《The Merry Wives of Windsor》中的一個名叫Pistol的角色口中。

《The Merry Wives of Windsor》又名"溫沙的風(fēng)流娘兒們"或"快樂的溫莎巧婦"（有沒有一種聽到名字就很想看的感覺），是一部由英國女王伊麗莎白欽點、莎士比亞在14天創(chuàng)作出的歡樂愛情喜劇，講述了來自上流社會的約翰·福斯塔夫爵士與平民女人們間滑稽的風(fēng)流韻事。

因為約翰·福斯塔夫爵士不肯借錢給惡棍 Pistol，被Pistol威脅道：

"Why then the world's mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open."

這個世界是我的牡蠣，我用刀就可以把它撬開。

后人引用時通常把 mine 替換做 my，用來指代一個人的夢想得以實現(xiàn)，他抓住了所有可能出現(xiàn)的機(jī)會，前途無量，心想事成。

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. 這個世界是我的了，我可以隨心所欲，做什么都可以。

比如，你身邊有一個人，他不僅出生在大富之家，而且名校畢業(yè)，外表英俊，性格開朗，能力超群。這樣的人，你就可以形容他說：

"The world is his oyster!"

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The world is my oyster. I'm in love.

世界是我的了。我戀愛啦。

You have passed the hurdle and the world is your oyster.

你已克服了障礙，你可隨心所欲了。

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學(xué)姐說：

感謝你的認(rèn)真閱讀。Don't give up. The world is your oyster! 別放棄，這世界是你們的！

我建立了一個大學(xué)生英語學(xué)習(xí)社群（英語角），如果你想和大家一起練口語、交流學(xué)習(xí)難題，關(guān)注公眾號“學(xué)英語那點事”關(guān)注后即可加入，群里都是對英語充滿熱情的小伙伴～返回搜狐，查看更多

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oyster, any member of the families Ostreidae (true oysters) or Aviculidae (pearl oysters), bivalve mollusks found in temperate and warm coastal waters of all oceans. Bivalves known as thorny oysters (Spondylus) and saddle oysters (Anomia) are sometimes included in the group.True oysters have been cultivated as food for more than 2,000 years. Pearl oysters also have long been valued for the precious pearls that develop in them. (See also pearl.)

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The two valves of the oyster shell, which differ in shape, have rough surfaces that are often a dirty gray. The upper valve is convex, or higher at the middle than at the edges. The lower valve, fixed to the bottom or to another surface, is larger, has smoother edges, and is rather flat. The inner surfaces of both valves are smooth and white.The valves are held together at their narrow ends by an elastic ligament. A large central muscle (adductor muscle) serves to close the valve against the pull of the ligament. As the valves are held slightly open, tiny hairlike structures (cilia) on the gills draw water inward by means of wavelike motions. Two to three gallons may pass through the oyster in an hour. Minute organic particles, filtered from the water, serve as food.Oysters, in turn, are eaten by birds, sea stars, and snails, as well as by fishes. The oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinenea), a widely occurring snail, drills a tiny hole through the oyster shell, then sucks out the living tissue.Like other bivalves, most oysters are either male or female, although hermaphroditism also occurs. Ostrea edulis exhibits a phenomenon called sequential hermaphroditism, in which an individual alternates sexes seasonally or with changes in water temperature. Oysters breed in the summer. The eggs of some species are released into the water before fertilization by the sperm; the eggs of others are fertilized within the female. The young are released as ciliated larvae known collectively as veligers, which swim for several days before permanently attaching themselves to a site and metamorphosing. Edible oysters are ready for harvesting in three to five years.

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True oysters (family Ostreidae) include species of Ostrea, Crassostrea, and Pycnodonte. Common Ostrea species include the European flat, or edible, oyster, O. edulis; the Olympia oyster, O. lurida; and O. frons. Crassostrea species include the Portuguese oyster, C. angulata; the North American, or Virginia, oyster, C. virginica; and the Japanese oyster, C. gigas. Pearl oysters (family Aviculidae) are mostly of the genus Meleagrina, sometimes called Pinctada or Margaritifera.O. edulis occurs from the coast of Norway to waters near Morocco, through the Mediterranean Sea, and into the Black Sea. It is hermaphroditic and attains lengths of about 8 cm (about 3 inches). O. lurida, of the Pacific coastal waters of North America, grows to about 7.5 cm (3 inches). C. virginica, native to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the West Indies and about 15 cm (6 inches) long, has been introduced into Pacific coastal waters of North America. Up to 50,000,000 eggs may be released by the female at one time. Commercially, C. virginica is the most important North American mollusk. C. angulata occurs in coastal waters of western Europe. C. gigas, of Japanese coastal waters, is among the largest oysters, attaining lengths of about 30 cm (1 foot). Like C. virginica, the Sydney rock oyster (Crassostrea commercialis) changes sex; born male, it changes to female later in life. It is the most economically important Australian edible oyster.Oysters are shucked and eaten raw, cooked, or smoked. Popular varieties include the blue point and lynnhaven—forms of C. virginica (harvested, respectively, from the Blue Point, Long Island, and Lynnhaven Bay, Va., regions); as well as the colchester of Britain and the marennes of France. The colchester and marennes are forms of O. edulis.

Pearls are formed in oysters by the accumulation of nacre, the material lining the oyster shell, around a solid piece of foreign matter that has become lodged inside the shell. Pearls formed in edible oysters are lustreless and of no value. The best natural pearls occur in a few Oriental species, particularly Meleagrina vulgaris, native to the Persian Gulf. This species is found mainly at depths of 8 to 20 fathoms (48 to 120 feet). Pearls are taken mostly from oysters more than five years old. Cultured pearls are grown around bits of mother-of-pearl inserted manually into the oyster. Most cultured pearls are grown in Japanese or Australian coastal waters.

This article was most recently revised and updated by John P. Rafferty.

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Unauthorized use is prohibited.1 / 21 / 2An eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Sedge Island Natural Resource Education Center in New JerseyAn eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Sedge Island Natural Resource Education Center in New JerseyPhotograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo ArkAnimalsPhoto ArkOystersShareTweetEmailCommon Name: OystersScientific Name: OstreidaeType: InvertebratesDiet: OmnivoreGroup Name: Colony, bed, reefAverage Life Span In Captivity: Up to 20 yearsSize: 3 inches to 14 inchesSize relative to a teacup: There are many food items in the world that evoke the question, “How hungry did the first person to eat that have to be?” But few such dishes can rival the raw oyster for unpalatable appearance and general “ick” factor.As FoodIf undaunted by the oyster’s rough, rock-hard, nearly-impossible-to-open shell, the undoubtedly famished first taster would then have confronted the gray, slimy, almost phlegmatic appearance of its plump body. Once beyond any primal gag reflex though, this seminal slurper would have been surprisingly rewarded with the oyster’s delicate, toothy texture, rich flavor, and salty liquor. Oysters are also high in calcium, iron, and protein. Admittedly, they’re not for everyone, but adventurous humans the world over have enjoyed oysters, raw and cooked, for thousands of years.Habitat and RangeAlthough it is possible for food oysters to produce pearls, they should not be confused with actual pearl oysters, which are from a different family of bivalves. True oysters, which belong to the Ostreidae family, are found throughout the world’s oceans, usually in shallow waters and in colonies called beds or reefs. Among the most popular and heavily harvested species are the eastern American oyster (Crassostrea virginica), found in Atlantic waters from Canada to Argentina, and the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), found from Japan to Washington state and as far south as Australia.ShellsOyster shells are usually oval or pear-shaped, but will vary widely in form depending on what they attach to. They are generally whitish-gray in outer shell color, and their inside shell is usually a porcelain white. They have extremely strong adductor muscles to close their shells when threatened.BehaviorOysters feed by extracting algae and other food particles from the water they are almost constantly drawing over their gills. They reproduce when the water warms by broadcast spawning, and will change gender once or more during their lifetime.Threats to SurvivalCommercial harvesting of oysters is regulated throughout most of their range, and they are not currently listed as threatened or endangered. 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Oyster · World 帶你了解生蠔的營養(yǎng)價值 - 知乎

Oyster · World 帶你了解生蠔的營養(yǎng)價值 - 知乎首發(fā)于OysterWorld切換模式寫文章登錄/注冊O(shè)yster · World 帶你了解生蠔的營養(yǎng)價值OysterWorld進(jìn)口世界各國高品質(zhì)無污染海域鮮活生蠔。生蠔文化傳播者及搬運工『 Oyster · World Oyster business value 』『 說到生蠔可能很多人都會產(chǎn)生第一畫面就是街邊烤生蠔 10元3個，北方人稱之為海蠣子，牡蠣。今天在這里告訴大家真相并非如此，牡蠣和生蠔是兩種完全不同的東西,雖然很多時候和很多地方也把“生蠔”稱為牡蠣，或者嚴(yán)格地說，生蠔屬于牡蠣的一種。由于適合生長條件的限制，它的數(shù)量上比其它品種的少，因此它的經(jīng)濟(jì)價位一般比較高?！唬╓hen it comes to raw oysters may cause the first picture is a lot of people will roast oyster 10 yuan 3 from the street, the north called oysters, oysters. Tell you the truth here today is not the case, oysters and raw oysters are two completely different things, although a lot of time and a lot of places also called the \"oyster\" oysters, or strictly speaking, oyster belongs to a kind of oyster. As a result of the limitation of suitable growth conditions, its number is less than the other varieties, so its economy is generally high prices.）〖 就鋅含量而言，牡蠣和生蠔的差別卻十分驚人：每100g生蠔含鋅71.2mg，而同樣重量的牡蠣含鋅只有9.39mg，生蠔是普通牡蠣的7.6倍。就鋅含量而言，生蠔絕對是佼佼者，遙遙領(lǐng)先于其他天然食物，再無一種食物可以望其項背。還有蠔肉蛋白質(zhì)含量超過40％，營養(yǎng)豐富，味道鮮美，素有“海中牛奶”之稱，同時還可入藥。因此，營養(yǎng)學(xué)一向推崇的含鋅量“最高”的牡蠣是指“生蠔”，而不是普通的牡蠣。鋅，對男人來說，是構(gòu)成ＪＹ的很重要的元素，你懂得。〗（In terms of content of zinc, oysters and the difference of raw oysters are staggering: 71.2 mg per 100 g oyster containing zinc, and the same weight of oyster zinc only 9.39 mg, oyster is 7.6 times that of ordinary oysters. In terms of content of zinc, oyster is absolutely outstanding, well ahead of other natural food, all kinds of food can be nearly as well. And oyster meat protein content more than 40%, nutritious, delicious, known as "milk" in the sea, at the same time can also be used as a medicine. Nutrition, therefore, have always admired the zinc content of oyster "highest" refers to "oyster", rather than ordinary oysters. Zinc, for men, is a very important element of JY, you know.）「 生蠔是唯一可以生食的貝類，在很多國家很普遍，對人體也有多種保健功能?！梗∣ysters are the only raw shellfish, are common in many countries, also have a variety of health care function to human body.）生蠔所含有的營養(yǎng)成分以及功效:糖 原：糖原是生蠔的主要成分，具有迅速補(bǔ)充，恢復(fù)體力，提高肌體免疫力的作用。蛋白質(zhì)：生蠔中蛋白質(zhì)含量高脂肪含量少，故又稱之為"海底牛奶"，在生蠔干，也就是豉中體現(xiàn)更加明顯。生蠔具有調(diào)節(jié)整個大腦皮層的功能,對于美容養(yǎng)顏、滋陰補(bǔ)血、補(bǔ)腎壯陽都有不錯的效果。古文有: 生用鎮(zhèn)靜、軟堅、解熱的效力良好；煅用則澀而帶燥，收斂固澀之力較強(qiáng)。 注：大部分海鮮的性寒，生蠔也不例外，體質(zhì)特別寒涼的人建議少吃。碳酸鈣：其成分具有收斂、制酸、止痛等作用，有助于胃及十二指腸潰瘍的愈合。實驗證明：生蠔制劑白牡片能治療豚鼠實驗性潰瘍和防止大鼠實驗性胃潰瘍的發(fā)生，并能抑制大鼠游離酸和總酸的分泌。?；撬幔荷栔兴呐｜S酸有明顯的保肝利膽作用，可以防治孕期肝內(nèi)膽汁瘀積癥。微量元素：生蠔中所含的微量元素和糖元，可以促進(jìn)胎兒的生長發(fā)育、矯治孕婦貧血和加快孕婦體力的恢復(fù)。磷：生蠔中所含的磷很豐富，因為鈣被人體吸收需要磷的幫助，所以又是補(bǔ)鈣的最好食品。維生素b12：生蠔中所含的維生素B12，是一般食物所或缺的，維生素B12中的鉆元素可以有效預(yù)防惡性貧血，因此具有活躍造血功能的作用。氨基酸：生蠔中所含的蛋白質(zhì)中含有多種優(yōu)良的氨基酸：（1）這些氨基酸可以除去體內(nèi)的有毒物質(zhì)，可解毒；（2）氨基乙磺酸可以降低血膽固醇濃度，因此又可預(yù)防動脈硬化。鈣：生蠔中所含的鈣元素，使皮膚滑潤、鈣使膚色好看，看起來特別有血色。鉀和維生素 : 生蠔中所含的鉀元素，可治療皮膚干燥及粉刺；維生素可使皮膚光潤，同時可以調(diào)節(jié)油脂的分泌。核酸 : 生蠔中所含的核酸，是蛋白質(zhì)合成的重要成分，能延緩皮膚老化，減少皺紋的形成。隨著年齡的增長，人體合成核酸的能力逐漸降低，只能從食物中攝取，人們?nèi)粘Ｋ嫷呐Ｄ淘谶@方面明顯不及"海底牛奶"。鋅 : 生蠔中所含的鋅元素，研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，鋅對生殖器官的發(fā)育和性功能的完善至關(guān)重要，前列腺及精液中含有豐富的鋅才有利于精子的生存和活動。否則，一方面會使睪丸組織結(jié)構(gòu)萎縮，精子生長異常且活動力減弱；另一方面會使男性的雄性激素水平明顯下降。硒 : 生蠔中所含的硒元素，則能阻止體內(nèi)有害物質(zhì)對精子細(xì)胞膜的氧化損傷，方可保護(hù)精子?；钚噪?: 對人體有多種保健功能，由于人體胃酸的破壞作用，生吃只是獲取了生蠔中一少部分的營養(yǎng)，未被人體完全吸收利用。Raw oysters have nutrition composition and efficacy :Glycogen, glycogen is the main element of the oyster, has rapidly supplement, restores the physical strength, improve the body immunity function.Protein: high protein content in the raw oysters, less fat, so it is also called the "sea of milk", in oyster dry, namely is more obvious in fish. Oysters have adjust the function of the cerebral cortex, the blood tonic, beauty to raise colour, ziyin kidney strong sun has a good effect. Ancient prose are: raw with calm, soft firm, antipyretic effect is good; But with dry calcined with is acerbity, solid acerbity force of strong convergence. Note: most of the seafood sex cold, oyster is not exceptional also, special cold constitution suggest eating less.Calcium carbonate: its composition have convergence, acid and pain effect, helps to gastric and duodenal ulcer healing. Experimental results show: the formulation of oyster white stag can cure on guinea pig experimental ulcer and prevent the occurrence of experimental gastric ulcer in rats, and inhibit the secretion of free acid and total acid in rats.Taurine: oysters in the bezoar acid has obvious cholagogic effect, protect liver can prevention and treatment of intrahepatic bile YuJi disease during pregnancy.Trace elements: oysters contain trace elements and repletion, pregnant women can contribute to the growth and development of the fetus, correction of anemia and speed up the pregnant women of strength.P: oysters contain phosphorus is very rich, because calcium is absorbed by the human body needs the help of phosphorus, so it is the best food calcium.Vitamin b12: oysters contain vitamin b12, is general food or lack of vitamin b12 in the drill elements can effectively prevent pernicious anemia, so have the function of the active hematopoietic function.Amino acids, protein content in the raw oysters contain a variety of excellent amino acids:(1) these amino acids can remove toxic substances in the body, to detoxify;(2) the taurine can lower blood cholesterol concentration, therefore, can prevent hardening of the arteries.Calcium: calcium contained in raw oysters, make the skin smooth, make skin beautiful, calcium seems particularly bloody.Potassium and vitamin: oysters contain potassium, to treat dry skin and acne; Vitamin can make the skin smooth, and can regulate the secretion of oils and fats.Nucleic acids: nucleic acids contained in raw oysters, are the important components of protein synthesis, can delay the ageing of the skin, and reduce the formation of wrinkles. As the growth of the age, the body's ability to synthesis of nucleic acids gradually reduce, can only be from food intake, daily milk drink by significantly less than "the seabed milk" in this regard.Zinc, zinc contained in raw oysters, the study found that zinc for the perfection of the development of reproductive organs and sexual function is crucial, prostate and semen contains abundant activity and is conducive to the survival of sperm and zinc. Otherwise, on the one hand, can make the structure of testicular tissue atrophy, developed abnormal sperm and activity weakened; On the other hand will make men significantly lower testosterone levels.Selenium: oysters contains selenium element, it can prevent the body from harmful substances oxidative damage of sperm membrane, can protect the sperm.Active peptide: a variety of health care function to human body, because the damage, stomach acid raw are but a few nutrients, obtained the oyster one not be fully absorbed by human body use.『 Oyster · World 宗旨：求質(zhì)不求量！』發(fā)布于 2017-04-27 13:50生蠔牡蠣美食家?贊同 11??1 條評論?分享?喜歡?收藏?申請轉(zhuǎn)載?文章被以下專欄收錄OysterWorld進(jìn)口世界各國高品質(zhì)無污染海域鮮活生蠔外

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15 Facts About Oysters and the Need to Protect Them

Oysters are small mollusks, typically growing 3 to 5 inches long, but they play an outsized role in marine ecosystems and coastal economies.

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Did you know a raw oyster is still alive as you eat it? Or that people have consumed them since prehistoric times? Or that oysters filter and clean water while they eat? ?

Oysters play a big role in marine and coastal environments but face many threats, from pollution to changing ocean conditions to dredging. That’s why it’s critical to restore reefs and safeguard oyster habitat. Here are 15 things you might be surprised to learn about Eastern oysters:

A healthy adult oyster can filter the amount of water it takes to fill a small bathtub every day. Oysters feed by pumping water through their gills and in the process capture algae and other particles, sort of like a strainer. So by cleaning the water, oysters help maintain the balance of their ecosystems.

Oysters change gender. Most start out male, but some change to female after they spawn once or twice.

Oyster reefs are one of the most imperiled marine habitats on Earth, with 85% to 90% of wild reefs lost over the past century.

Very few oysters produce jewelry-quality pearls on their own; that usually requires a human prying open a cultivated oyster’s shell to insert a grain of sand or other seeding material. Oysters make pearls when such foreign substances lodge in their shells. The oyster deposits layers of nacre, the material that makes up pearls, around the foreign body to wall it off and reduce irritation. ??

To reproduce, oysters spawn tiny larvae that move through the water and settle on a surface, such as other oyster shells, where they will grow for the rest of their lives. Once attached, these larvae are called spat. As generations of spat grow into adults, they form oyster beds or reefs.

Oyster reefs help diffuse energy from storms and tides, which helps safeguard coastlines by preventing erosion and protecting estuary?waters that serve as breeding grounds for marine life. Extremely strong storms can bury or move these reefs.

Oysters live in brackish and saltwater bays, estuaries, tidal creeks, shallow ocean areas, and intertidal zones—regions submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.

A great egret moves through an oyster bed. Reefs offer food for many shorebirds.

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Many marine animals hide from predators in oyster reefs and eat tiny organisms that are drawn there. Reefs host animals ranging from crabs, mussels, and snails to herring, anchovies, and menhaden. These environments provide food for turtles, shorebirds, and recreationally and commercially valuable fish such as red drum, flounder, striped bass, and spotted sea trout.

Oysters have three-chambered hearts that pump colorless blood throughout their bodies. They breathe with gills, just like fish.

Wild oysters can live 25 to 30 years, but typically most don’t survive past six years.

Eastern oysters are prey for stone crabs, fish such as black drum, some kinds of sea snails, and sponges that bore holes in oyster shells to find homes.

Today, oyster populations are at historic lows. Erosion from development, along with wetland loss, pollution, overharvesting, changing ocean conditions, freshwater discharges, disease, and damaging fishing gear, have wiped out some populations and caused others to plummet.

Oyster shells are recyclable. Restaurants and other groups in coastal communities collect them to build new reefs.

Governments, conservation groups, researchers, and others along America’s coastlines are building new reefs from recycled shells, concrete, and crushed limestone. They are also growing oysters in tanks and farms to meet consumer demand.

Some oyster reefs are set aside as sanctuaries—places where oysters are left alone so their populations can recover and potentially spread even beyond the sanctuary boundaries.

For small mollusks, oysters play an outsized role in coastal communities, so protecting and restoring them makes sense for economies, the marine environment, and our plates.

Holly Binns directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ U.S. Conserving Marine Life program in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Caribbean; Joseph Gordon directs the program along the Atlantic coast. ?

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Guofan Zhang1?na1, Xiaodong Fang2?na1, Ximing Guo3?na1, Li Li1?na1, Ruibang Luo2,4?na1, Fei Xu1?na1, Pengcheng Yang2?na1, Linlin Zhang1?na1, Xiaotong Wang1?na1, Haigang Qi1, Zhiqiang Xiong2, Huayong Que1, Yinlong Xie2,4, Peter W. H. Holland5, Jordi Paps5, Yabing Zhu2, Fucun Wu1, Yuanxin Chen2, Jiafeng Wang1, Chunfang Peng2, Jie Meng1, Lan Yang2, Jun Liu1, Bo Wen2, Na Zhang1, Zhiyong Huang2, Qihui Zhu1, Yue Feng2, Andrew Mount6, Dennis Hedgecock7, Zhe Xu8, Yunjie Liu2, Tomislav Domazet-Lo?o9, Yishuai Du1, Xiaoqing Sun2, Shoudu Zhang1, Binghang Liu2,4, Peizhou Cheng1, Xuanting Jiang2, Juan Li1, Dingding Fan2, Wei Wang1, Wenjing Fu2, Tong Wang1, Bo Wang2, Jibiao Zhang1, Zhiyu Peng2, Yingxiang Li1, Na Li2, Jinpeng Wang1, Maoshan Chen2, Yan He3, Fengji Tan2, Xiaorui Song1, Qiumei Zheng2, Ronglian Huang1, Hailong Yang2, Xuedi Du1, Li Chen2, Mei Yang1, Patrick M. Gaffney10, Shan Wang3, Longhai Luo2, Zhicai She1, Yao Ming2, Wen Huang1, Shu Zhang2, Baoyu Huang1, Yong Zhang2, Tao Qu1, Peixiang Ni2, Guoying Miao1, Junyi Wang2, Qiang Wang1, Christian E. W. Steinberg11, Haiyan Wang1, Ning Li2, Lumin Qian3, Guojie Zhang2, Yingrui Li2, Huanming Yang2, Xiao Liu1, Jian Wang2, Ye Yin2 & …Jun Wang2,12,13?Show authors

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AbstractThe Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy, along with transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteome of the shell. The oyster genome is highly polymorphic and rich in repetitive sequences, with some transposable elements still actively shaping variation. Transcriptome studies reveal an extensive set of genes responding to environmental stress. The expansion of genes coding for heat shock protein 70 and inhibitors of apoptosis is probably central to the oyster’s adaptation to sessile life in the highly stressful intertidal zone. Our analyses also show that shell formation in molluscs is more complex than currently understood and involves extensive participation of cells and their exosomes. The oyster genome sequence fills a void in our understanding of the Lophotrochozoa.

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MainOceans cover approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface and harbour most of the phylum diversity of the animal kingdom. Understanding marine biodiversity and its evolution remains a major challenge. The Pacific oyster C. gigas (Thunberg, 1793) is a marine bivalve belonging to the phylum Mollusca, which contains the largest number of described marine animal species1. Molluscs have vital roles in the functioning of marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, and have had major effects on humans, primarily as food sources but also as sources of dyes, decorative pearls and shells, vectors of parasites, and biofouling or destructive agents. Many molluscs are important fishery and aquaculture species, as well as models for studying neurobiology, biomineralization, ocean acidification and adaptation to coastal environments under climate change2,3. As the most speciose member of the Lophotrochozoa, phylum Mollusca is central to our understanding of the biology and evolution of this superphylum of protostomes.As sessile marine animals living in estuarine and intertidal regions, oysters must cope with harsh and dynamically changing environments. Abiotic factors such as temperature and salinity fluctuate wildly, and toxic metals and desiccation also pose serious challenges. Filter-feeding oysters face tremendous exposure to microbial pathogens. Oysters do have a notable physical line of defence against predation and desiccation in the formation of thick calcified shells, a key evolutionary innovation making molluscs a successful group. However, acidification of the world’s oceans by uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide poses a potentially serious threat to this ancient adaptation4. Understanding biomineralization and molluscan shell formation is, thus, a major area of interest5. Crassostrea gigas is also an interesting model for developmental biology owing to its mosaic development with typical molluscan stages, including trochophore and veliger larvae and metamorphosis.A complete genome sequence of C. gigas would enable a more thorough understanding of oyster biology and the evolution of Lophotrochozoa. One of the main challenges, however, is the high levels of polymorphism present in oysters and many marine invertebrates6,7,8. To overcome this, an oyster derived from four generations of full-sibling mating (coefficient of inbreeding, F = 0.59) was used for genome sequencing and assembly (Supplementary Text B1) through fosmid pooling, next-generation sequencing (NGS) and hierarchical assembling. Combining these genomic data with transcriptomes from different organs, different developmental stages and adults challenged with stressors, in addition to mass spectrometric analysis of shell proteins, allowed us to explore characteristics of the oyster genome and key aspects of molluscan biology related to stress response and shell formation.Sequencing and hierarchical assemblyNGS technology has been successfully applied for de novo genome sequencing and assembly using whole-genome shotgun strategies9,10,11,12,13. We initially generated 155-fold Illumina whole-genome shotgun reads (Supplementary Table 1), but could not adequately assemble them owing to high levels of polymorphism and abundant repetitive sequences (Supplementary Text B2 and Supplementary Fig. 1). As possible alternative sequencing strategies—such as the addition of longer Roche 454 reads12,13 or traditional bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-to-BAC sequencing—are expensive, we opted instead for a more cost-effective fosmid-pooling strategy. In brief, a fosmid library was constructed, and 145,170 clones (～tenfold genome coverage) were evenly and randomly assigned into 1,613 pools, each of which was sequenced to ～60-fold depth and assembled separately (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 1). Contigs from each pool were merged into supercontigs, totalling 1,002 megabases (Mb) (Supplementary Text B4.1–3), which was larger than genome-size estimates of 637?Mb from flow cytometry or 545?Mb from k-mer (k-base fragment) analysis (Supplementary Text B1, 2.3), owing to failure of some allelic variants to merge (Supplementary Figs 3 and 4). Self-to-self whole-genome alignment with LASTZ14 and sequencing depth information were used to remove redundancy in the assembly (Supplementary Text B4.4). The resulting 446?Mb of the assembly were retained for further scaffolding using paired-end data (Fig. 1). The final assembly comprised 559?Mb, with a contig N50 size (at which 50% of assembly was covered) of 19.4 kilobases (kb) and a scaffold N50 size of 401?kb (Supplementary Text B4.5 and Supplementary Table 3). Over 90% of the assembly was covered by the longest 1,670 (14%) scaffolds.Figure 1:

Fosmid-pooling strategy for oyster genome assembly.

Genomic DNA was randomly sheared into fragments. a, b, A 40-kb-insert fosmid library was constructed (a), and 145,170 fosmid clones were randomly selected and assigned into 1,613 pools, each containing 90 clones covering 0.57% of the diploid genome (b). For each pool, three Illumina short-insert barcoded libraries (two 200?bp and one 500?bp) were constructed and ～60-fold coverage of 90-bp reads (20-fold per library) were generated, and assembled using SOAPdenovo with optimizing parameters. Assemblies from each pool were further corrected and reassembled if unexpected connections were detected owing to high similarity sequences from different fosmids, and gaps were filled by local assembly. c, Fosmid scaffolds were split into contigs at unfilled regions, leaving no undetermined bases in the sequences. Each base was assigned a Phred-like quality score determined by its coverage and alignment mismatches, and these sequences were merged into supercontigs using the overlap layout consensus method. Redundancy was removed using self-to-self alignment and sequencing depth information. d, Whole-genome shotgun Illumina libraries (200-bp to 20-kb inserts) from sheared genomic DNA were constructed for mated-pair Illumina sequencing. e, The fosmid supercontigs were linked into scaffolds using (1) the whole-genome shotgun sequences; (2) inferred paired-end information extracted from assembled pool scaffolds with a span size ranging from 50?bp to 37.5?kb; and (3) 225,000 fosmid ends sequenced using Sanger technology.

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Full size imageTo assess the completeness of the assembly, 105-fold coverage of short-insert library reads (<2?kb) that participated in assembly (Supplementary Table 1) were aligned against the assembly. Over 99% of these reads were successfully mapped, using a combination of Burrows–Wheeler Aligners15 and the more sensitive LASTZ (Supplementary Fig. 5 and Supplementary Table 4). The integrity of the assembly is further demonstrated by the successful mapping of 99% of the BAC sequenced obtained using the Sanger sequencing technique, and 98% of ～68,000 expressed sequence tags from 454 sequencing (Supplementary Text B5, Supplementary Fig. 6 and Supplementary Tables 5 and 6). Fosmid pooling has been used for re-sequencing16,17, and our results show that the combination of fosmid pooling, NGS and hierarchical assembly provides a new, cost-effective alternative for de novo sequencing and assembly of complex genomes.Polymorphism and repetitive sequencesTo understand polymorphism in the oyster genome, we analysed allelic variation in the assembled genome (inbred) and one re-sequenced wild oyster (wild) (Supplementary Text C1). The inbred genome contained 3.1?million single-nucleotide polymorphisms and 258,405 short insertion/deletion (indels, 1–40?base pairs (bp)) yielding a sequence polymorphism rate of 0.73%, whereas the wild genome had 3.8?million single-nucleotide polymorphisms and 238,182 indels, or a polymorphism rate of 1.3% (Supplementary Table 7), comparable to previous estimates18. This 44% reduction in polymorphism in the inbred genome is smaller than the 59.4% predicted from four generations of brother–sister mating, indicating that selection favouring heterozygotes had occurred19. The polymorphism combining inbred and wild (among four haplotypes) was 2.3%, higher than that in most studied animal genomes20,21 but comparable to that in known high-polymorphism species7. In inbred and wild, we found 3,094 short indels located in coding regions inferred to cause frameshift variants in 2,665 genes, providing an important source for recessive lethal mutations.k-mer-based analysis of the oyster genome showed that ～35% of 17-mers had at least two identical copies in the genome, suggesting an abundance of repetitive sequences (Supplementary Fig. 1). Similarly, homology searching and ab initio prediction found 202?Mb (36% of the genome) in repetitive sequences (Supplementary Text C2 and Supplementary Table 8). Over 62% of the detected repeats could not be assigned to known categories, reflecting the paucity of genomic information from molluscs22. Large numbers of transposase (359) and reverse-transcriptase (779) gene fragments were detected; over 96% of these had detectable transcripts (Supplementary Fig. 8). Alignment of the wild sequence against the assembly identified 20,605 deletions (>100?bp), over 80% of which overlapped with detected transposable elements, suggesting that transposable elements may have an active role in shaping genome variation. Using MITE-hunter23, we detected 157,007 copies of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs), accounting for a remarkable 8.82% of the genome (Supplementary Text C2.3 and Supplementary Table 9). Pair-wise comparisons show extremely low sequence divergence in some MITE families (Supplementary Fig. 9), indicating that they may still be active.Gene annotation and developmental genomicsA total of 28,027 genes were predicted encoding 50 amino acids or more by combining de novo prediction and evidence-based searches using reference genomes, oyster expressed sequence tags and transcriptomes from multiple organs and developmental stages (Supplementary Text D1 and E1 and Supplementary Fig. 11), with 96.1% showing expression (reads per kb per million mapped reads (RPKM) > 1 in at least one transcriptome; Supplementary Text D2). Of the inferred proteins, 21,085 matched entries in the SWISS-PROT, InterPro or TrEMBL databases. These genes plus their transcriptome profile from 7 adult organs and at 38 developmental stages provide valuable resources for comparative genomics analysis (Supplementary Text E2 and 3), functional inference and studies on development and organogenesis (Supplementary Text F2 and Supplementary Fig. 15).One notable finding of developmental interest is that the oyster Hox gene cluster is broken into four sections (Fig. 2) with flanking non-Hox genes (Supplementary Fig. 16). We did not find a clear Antennapedia gene, which is present in other bivalves such as Pecten and Yoldia24 (Supplementary Fig. 17). Disruption of the Hox cluster, as also observed in tunicates, nematodes and drosophilids, has been attributed to the loss of temporal co-linearity and modified developmental control25. Supporting this model, we find that Hox genes in the oyster are not activated in an order matching their identity or genomic position, with, for example, HOX4 and HOX1 peaking before gastrulation, LOX5 and POST2 during the trochophore stage and HOX5 during the pediveliger stage (Supplementary Fig. 18 and Supplementary Table 15).Figure 2: Clustering of Hox genes in Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas , polychaete annelid Capitella teleta , fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster , lancelet Branchiostoma floridae and Homo sapiens.Oblique lines indicate regions of Hox cluster that are non-contiguous or interrupted. Blue denotes anterior Hox genes, yellow denotes paralogy group 3 Hox genes, green and purple denote central Hox genes and red denotes posterior Hox genes.

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Full size imageAdaptation to environmental stressComparison with seven other sequenced genomes identified 8,654 oyster-specific genes (Supplementary Text E3.1) that are probably important in the evolution and adaptation of oysters and other molluscs. With oysters being the only representative, these genes could be shared by other molluscs. Among these genes, gene ontology terms related to ‘protein binding’, ‘a(chǎn)poptosis’, ‘cytokine activity’ and ‘inflammatory response’ are highly enriched (P?

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Full size imageTo investigate genome-wide responses to stress, we sequenced 61 transcriptomes from C. gigas subjected to nine stressors, including temperature, salinity, air exposure and heavy metals (Supplementary Text G1 and Supplementary Tables 19 and 20). We found that 5,844 genes were differentially expressed under at least one stressor, and genes responding to different stressors showed significant overlap (Fig. 3b and Supplementary Fig. 23a). Air exposure induced a response from the largest number of genes (4,420), indicating that air exposure is a major stressor and that oysters have evolved an extensive gene set in defence. Genes differentially expressed in response to stress are more likely to have paralogues (Fig. 3c), suggesting that expansion and selective retention of duplicated defence-related genes are probably important to oyster adaptation. Under most stressors, genes coding for HSPs, histones, IAPs and protein biogenesis were upregulated, and those for protein degradation downregulated, pointing to concerted responses to maintain cellular homeostasis30 (Supplementary Text G3 and Supplementary Table 21). Genes involved in the unfolded protein response to cellular stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (coding for calreticulin, calnexin, 78- and 94-kDa glucose-regulated proteins) were upregulated, indicating that protein quality control is critical in cellular homeostasis under stress.Air exposure induced up to 67-fold upregulation of five highly expressed IAPs (Supplementary Fig. 24a). Other inhibitors of apoptosis were also upregulated: BCL2 up to fourfold and BAG up to 12-fold (Supplementary Fig. 24b). These apoptosis inhibitors were also highly upregulated under heat and low salinity stress. These findings, along with the expansion of IAPs, suggest that a powerful anti-apoptosis system exists and may be critical for the amazing endurance of oysters to air exposure and other stresses. The existence of an intrinsic apoptosis pathway in invertebrates has been controversial, and parts of the pathways have only recently been demonstrated for two lophotrochozoans31,32. The finding of key genes belonging to both intrinsic (BAX, BAK, BAG, BCL2, BI1 and procaspase) and extrinsic (TNFR and caspase 8) apoptosis pathways indicates that oysters have advanced apoptosis systems. Powerful inhibition of apoptosis as shown by genomic and transcriptomic analyses may be central to the ability of oysters to tolerate prolonged air exposure and other stresses.Heat stress induced a ～2,000-fold increase in expression of five highly inducible HSP70 genes or a 13.9-fold increase in average expression of all HSP70 genes, amounting to 4.2% of all transcripts (Supplementary Figs 24c and 25). The genomic expansion and massive upregulation of HSP genes help to explain why C. gigas can tolerate temperatures as high as 49?°C when exposed to summer sun at low tide33. HSP genes were also upregulated under other stressors and may be central to the oyster defence against all stresses (Supplementary Fig. 25). HSP genes may also inhibit apoptosis by binding to effector caspases34.Genes involved in signal transduction, including genes coding for G-protein-coupled receptors and Ras GTPase, were also activated by stressors (Supplementary Fig. 24f) and over-represented in the oyster genome (Supplementary Table 11). These regulators may have a role in orchestrating stress responses, which seem to be well coordinated (Fig. 3a and Supplementary Fig. 25). The expansion of key defence genes and the strong, complex transcriptomic response to stress highlight the sophisticated genomic adaptations of the oyster to sessile life in a highly stressful environment.Shell formationCalcified shells provide critical protection against predation and desiccation in sessile marine animals such as oysters. Molluscan shells consist of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) crystals of either aragonite or calcite embedded in an elaborate organic matrix. Two models have been advanced for molluscan shell formation. The matrix model posits that mineralization occurs in a mantle-secreted matrix of chitin, silk fibroin and acidic proteins35,36. Chitin and silk proteins are proposed to provide matrix structure, whereas acidic proteins control the nucleation and growth of CaCO3 crystals. The cellular model suggests that biomineralization is cell-mediated; that is, crystals are formed in haemocytes and then deposited at the mineralization front37.We searched the oyster genome for genes implicated in shell formation in previous studies and examined their expression in different tissues and at different stages (Supplementary Text H1, 2). We also sequenced peptides from shells, mapped them to the genome and identified 259 shell proteins (Supplementary Text H3 and Supplementary Table 24). Although our search found evidence for the involvement of chitin, we did not find any silk-like proteins encoded in the oyster genome (Supplementary Text H2) but found, instead, many diverse proteins that may have roles in matrix construction and modification. Notably, a gene coding for a fibronectin-like protein was highly expressed at the early developmental stage, when larval shells are formed, in unison with chitin synthase (Fig. 4a) and was mostly expressed in the adult mantle (40× other organ average; Fig. 4b); the fibronectin-like protein was among the most abundant proteins found in oyster shells. Genes coding for laminin and some collagen proteins were also highly expressed in the mantle (Supplementary Fig. 27a) and found in shells. These are typical extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, and their presence in shells suggests that the shell matrix has similarities to the ECM of animal connective tissues and basal lamina. Unlike silk fibroins that can self assemble38, the formation of fibronectin fibrils in the ECM is cell mediated39. Oyster fibronectin-like proteins have five type-III domains for integrin binding and cell adhesion. Genes coding for integrins were highly expressed in haemocytes (4× other organ average, Supplementary Fig. 27b). Thus, haemocytes may organize fibronectin-like fibril formation in the shell matrix as they do in ECM.Figure 4:

Genes related to shell formation identified from mass spectroscopy analysis of shell proteins and transcriptome data.

a, Relative expression (y axis) of genes coding for chitin synthase (gene CGI_10009438) and fibronectin-like (CGI_10016964) in early development corresponds to the formation of shell gland and first larval shells, as seen in scanning electron microscope photos. White arrow denotes the invagination that forms the shell gland. Developmental stages (x axis) and their timeline are defined in Supplementary Table 12. b, In adults, chitin synthase and fibronectin-like proteins (same colour as in a) are almost exclusively expressed in the mantle compared with other organs. Fibronectin-like is also one of the most abundant proteins found in the shell. c, Distribution of shell proteins in diverse Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) pathways indicative of general cellular functions. d, Expression of 26 tyrosinase genes in the mantle edge, mantle pallial and other organs. Tyrosinases are abundant in shells and their higher expression in the non-pigmented mantle pallial indicate that their functions are not limited to melanogenesis but are related to shell formation.

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Full size imageThe involvement of cells in shell formation is further supported by the functional diversity of proteins detected in shells. Many housekeeping proteins, such as elongation factor 1α and ribosomal proteins, were found in the shell; indeed, most oyster shell proteins are not structural proteins but are distributed in diverse metabolic pathways (Fig. 4c and Supplementary Table 25). This functional diversity of shell proteins mirrors that of cells, which is unexpected under the matrix model. Furthermore, 84% of the 259 shell proteins identified are not classical secreted proteins (Supplementary Text H3.4 and Supplementary Table 24); they may be part of cells or deposited by exosomes40. Supporting the presence of exosomes, 61 of the 259 shell proteins matched proteins in the exosome database41. Cells and exosome-like vesicles containing calcite crystals have been observed at the mineralization front37,42, although their significance in shell formation is debated. This study provides molecular evidence for their presence inside shells and their probable participation in shell formation.Many shell proteins are enzymes that may be involved in matrix construction or modification. A homologue of penicillin-binding protein is exclusively expressed in mantle (72× other organ average) and highly abundant in shells (Supplementary Fig. 27d). Penicillin-binding protein is a transpeptidase that crosslinks glycopeptides in bacterial cell walls43 and may have similar functions in the shell matrix. Another notable enzyme found is tyrosinase. The oyster genome has an expanded set of 26 genes coding for tyrosinase, compared with one in Caenorhabditis elegans and two in humans; most genes coding for tyrosinase are mantle specific (Fig. 4d) and highly enriched among shell proteins (P = 8?×?10?6). Although tyrosinase is a key enzyme in melanogenesis44,45, it is most highly expressed in the non-pigmented pallial mantle (Fig. 4d), indicating that it has other functions in the oyster. The mantle secretes tyrosine-rich proteins46, and oxidation of tyrosine may be essential for shell matrix maturation. Several proteinases and proteinase inhibitors are highly mantle specific and abundant in shells, and may be involved in matrix formation, modification and protection (Supplementary Table 24). Together, these results indicate that oyster shell matrix is not formed simply by self-assembling silk-like proteins but by diverse proteins through complex assembly and modification processes that may involve haemocytes and exosomes.Concluding remarksWe sequenced and assembled the genome of the Pacific oyster using an inbred individual, short-read NGS and a new fosmid-pooling and hierarchical assembly strategy. The draft assembly provided insight into a molluscan genome characterized by high polymorphism, abundant repetitive sequences and active transposable elements. Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses show unique adaptations of oysters to sessile life in a highly stressful intertidal environment and the complexity of shell formation. The oyster genome sequence and comprehensive transcriptome data provide valuable resources for studying molluscan biology and lophotrochozoan evolution, and for genetic improvement of oysters and other important aquaculture species.Methods SummaryThe sequenced Pacific oyster is an inbred female produced by four generations of brother–sister mating. Genome sequences were produced with Illumina platform using fosmid pooling and assembled with a new hierarchical assembly strategy. Fosmid ends were sequenced by Sanger. Gene models were obtained by integrating results of de novo gene prediction and alignment-based methods based on homology and transcriptomic evidence. Transcriptomes were sequenced with Illumina platform. The proteome of the shell was obtained by mass spectrometry. All methods are described in detail in the Supplementary Information.

Accession codes

Primary accessions

GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ

AFTI00000000

Gene Expression Omnibus

GSE31012

Sequence Read Archive

SRA040229

SRA043580

Data deposits

The oyster genome project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number AFTI00000000. All short-read data have been deposited into the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra) under the accession number SRA040229. Short-read data of re-sequencing have been deposited in the SRA under the accession number SRA043580. Raw sequencing data of transcriptomes have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus under the accession number GSE31012. Genomic data are also available at the Comprehensive Library for Modern Biotechnology (CLiMB) repository: doi:10.5524/100030 (ref. 47).

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