Blood clam

Isolation and characterization of 48 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the blood clam Scapharca broughtonii (Arcidae)

J. - T. Tian, Liu, Z. - H., Zhou, L. - Q., Wu, B., Liu, P., and Yang, A. - G., Isolation and characterization of 48 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the blood clam Scapharca broughtonii (Arcidae), vol. 11, pp. 4501-4507, 2012.

Blood clams (Scapharca broughtonii) are widely cultivated and consumed in noutheast Asia. Forty-eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed for this clam using magnetic-bead hybridization enrichment. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 14. Polymorphism of these loci was assessed in 30 individuals from a population collected from coastal areas of Qingdao, China.

Population structure of the blood clam (Tegillarca granosa) in China based on microsatellite markers

Y. J. Wang, Zeng, Q. G., and Xu, L. N., Population structure of the blood clam (Tegillarca granosa) in China based on microsatellite markers, vol. 12, pp. 892-900, 2013.

The blood clam, Tegillarca granosa, is widely cultivated in China. We isolated 6 microsatellite loci from T. granosa and used them to investigate genetic diversity and population structure of 5 widely distributed populations of blood clam collected from eastern and southeastern China. The allele number per locus varied from 4 to 9, and the polymorphism information content value was 0.301 to 0.830.

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