Acknowledgments
This work was funded byHigherDegree Research from the Macquarie
Faculty of Science and by an Australian Postgraduate Award from the
Australian Government. We thank James Brown (Cygnet Bay Pearls),
for supplying oysters and providing support. We also acknowledge
Duncan Smith, Mick Flynn, Cameron Adam and Mick Severn (Cygnet
Bay Pearls) for their technical assistance throughout this project.