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freshwater mussels, have taken the world by storm.
Their varieties of color, shape and size have put
them at the center of pearl activity today. Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels when
foreign material, usually a sharp object or a
parasite, enters a mussel and cannot be expelled.
In order to reduce irritation the mussell coats the
intruder with the same secretion, nacre, it uses
for its shell-building. To culture freshwater
pearls workers slightly open their shells, cut
small slits into the mantle tissue inside both
shells, and insert small pieces of live mantle
tissue from another mussel into the slits. That
insertion alone is sufficient to start the
production of nacre. Most cultured freshwater
pearls are composed entirely of nacre. Copyright©
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