Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene sequences support an Asian origin for the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Wilbur, A. E., Hilbish, T. J., Foighil, D. A., Gaffney, Patrick M.
• Other Authors: Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079, USA, US, Delle W. Baruch Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA, US, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA, US, Ann Arbor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
• Subjects: Legacy; Natural Resources and Environment; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Science; Pacific; Lamarck; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42028; https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050341

The Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819) was long assumed to be native to the northeastern Atlantic, however, a number of lines of evidence now indicate that it is a close relative, or identical, to the Asian Pacific oyster C. gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Three hypotheses have been prop...