Genetic control of bluish shell color variation in the Pacific abalone, Haliotis discus hannai.
From: Journal of Shellfish Research
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Date: 12/15/2004
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Author: Hasekura, Osamu; Kawahara, Ikue; Kijima, Akihiro; Kobayashi, Toshimasa
ABSTRACT Shell color variation is one of the more interesting phenomena in abalone breeding. Especially, the identification of inheritable shell color will be a useful visual genetic marker. Bluish shell colored individuals were discovered in one full-sib family A out of nine families (A to I) in the Pacific abalone, Haliotis discus hannai. The segregation of the variant (bluish) type and the normal (greenish) type was 13:27, suggesting the existence of a recessive allele at a single ...
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