A molecular method to detect and identify the native species of southwestern Atlantic Crassostrea (Mollusca: Ostreidae)

Among oysters, species of Crassostrea (Sacco, 1897) are the most attractive to aquaculture. In Brazil, the genus is represented by C. rhizophorae (Guilding, 1828) and C. brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819). Because the maturation and breeding technology is not well developed for these species, aquaculturists...

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Main Authors: Sandra Ludwig, Raquel Patella, Sérgio Stoiev, Gisela Castilho-Westphal, Marcus V. F Girotto, Antonio Ostrensky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2011-08-01
Series:Zoologia (Curitiba)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702011000400002