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mirror carp
noun
A form of carp with irregular and patchy scaling.
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Globally, the biomass production per fish stocked was always lower in nude carp compared to mirror carp.
Back home in London, I've made it with sea bass, whole trout and fillets and, more recently, with organic mirror carp.
I'm particularly happy that the recipe works so well with mirror carp, one of the most sustainable fish and ripe for revival in places such as Britain, where it has long fallen out of favour.
We estimated the heritability of growth-related traits (weight and length at ages one summer, first spring and two summers) in a synthetic mirror carp strain (HSM) in the Czech Republic.
Roughly 65% of the wild carp, which mostly descended from the original mirror carp released into the wild, were fully scaled, despite all still carrying the genetic mutation that originally turned their ancestors into mirror carp.
One mutant was almost scaleless, reminiscent of domesticated mirror carp bred to lack many scales to be easy to clean.
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We found that survival of nude carps was lower or equal to that of mirror carps at all stages of the farming process, while growth performance was lower than that of mirror carps in some ponds only.
Tissue samples were excised from brain, muscle and live of three mature German mirror carps.
The number of intermuscular bones was the same in nude, mirror and scaly carps.
We conclude that as in Europe, it would be valuable to farm mirror rather than nude carps, as the supposed benefits of the latter are not supported by our experiment in typical Malagasy farming conditions.
We performed an on-farm experiment using a "common garden" design to control environmental variation, in order to compare the growth and survival, as well as the number of intermuscular bones of nude carp to two other common scale cover phenotypes of the same species, the mirror and scaly carps.
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