The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the Northern Ariake sea, Japan.(Report)

Journal of Shellfish Research | April 1, 2008| | Copyright

ABSTRACT The status of the Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea in its native Japan is uncertain because of a lack of information about its abundance and distribution and a suggestion that C. sikamea and the Pacific oyster C. gigas hybridize in the northern Ariake Sea. Furthermore, broodstock populations on the United States Pacific coast have been hybridized with C. gigas in the past and may suffer inbreeding depression from multiple generations of hatchery-propagation. As a result, Japanese conservationists and United States oyster growers share an interest in the status of ...

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