MORPHOLOGICAL AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO CULTURED SPECIES OF CUPPED-OYSTERS (BIVALVIA: OSTREIDAE) IN HONG KONG: TOWARDS A SIGNIFICANT TAXONOMIC NAME CHANGE
Cultured cupped-oysters species in Hong Kong have rarely been differentiated properly due to similarities in shell characters. This study attempted to characterize putative Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea ariakensis by morphological and genetic means. Allometric ratios of shell height/length and d...
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| Summary: | Cultured cupped-oysters species in Hong Kong have rarely been differentiated properly due to similarities in shell characters. This study attempted to characterize putative Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea ariakensis by morphological and genetic means. Allometric ratios of shell height/length and depth/length were significantly different between the two species. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of a PCR-amplified mitochondrial COI (cytochrome oxidase I) fragment was used to examine genetic differentiation between putative C. gigas from Hong Kong and previously studied |
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