Baldwin, B. S., M. Black, O. Sanjur, R. Gustafson, R. A. Lutz, and R. C. Vrijenhoek, 1996.   A Diagnostic Molecular Marker for Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and Potentially Co-occurring Bivalves: Mitochondrial COI, Center for Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium Sea Grant Program

Reprinted with permission  from Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology (1996) 5(1), 9-14, with permission from Blackwell Science Ltd.

A Diagnostic Molecular Marker for Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and Potentially Co-occurring Bivalves: Mitochondrial COI

Abstract
We report diagnostic differences in the nucleotide sequences of a 710-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (COI) from the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and potentially co-occurring bivalves: the quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis); the Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea), the dark false mussel (Mytilopsis leucophaeata), and the wedge clam (Rangia cuneata). The COI sequence of the deep-water "profunda" phenotype of the quagga mussel was nearly identical to that of shallow-water quagga mussels. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in this portion of COI produced species-specific differences in fragment numbers and sizes that could be used as diagnostic markers to distinguish the free-living larvae produced by these bivalves

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Keywords: Basic_biology, Quagga_mussels, Zebra_mussel
Product Type: Basic_biology, Research
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