Interspecific hybridization in oysters: Restriction enzyme digestion chromosome banding confirms Crassostrea angulata x Crassostrea gigas F1 hybrids

• Published in: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
• Main Authors: Leitao, A, Chaves, R, Santos, S, Guedes Pinto, H, Boudry, Pierre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2007
• Subjects: Interspecific hybrids; In situ restriction enzyme banding; Crassostrea gigas; C. angulata; Chromosome banding; Lamarck
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-4959.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2006.12.007; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4959/

The taxonomic status of the two commercially important cupped oysters, Crassostrea angulata, the Portuguese oyster (Lamarck, 1819) and Crassostrea gigas, the Japanese oyster (Thunberg, 1793) has long been in question. The recent observation of the hybridization between C. gigas and C. angulata and t...