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| Hedgecock, Dennis; Gaffney, Patrick M.; Goulletquer, Philippe; Guo, Ximing; Reece, Kimberly; Warr, Gregory. |
| An international community of biologists presents the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas as a candidate for genome sequencing. This oyster has global distribution and for the past several years the highest annual production of any freshwater or marine organism (4.2 million metric tons, worth $3.5 billion US). Economic and cultural importance of oysters motivates a great deal of biologic research, which provides a compelling rationale for sequencing an oyster genome. Strong rationales for sequencing the oyster genome also come from contrasts to other genomes: membership in the Lophotrochozoa, an understudied branch of the Eukaryotes and high fecundity, with concomitantly high DNA sequence polymorphism and a population biology that is more like plants than any... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Genomics; Evolutionary and ecological; Nucleotide diversity; Lophotrochozoa; Crassostrea gigas genome sequence; Pacific oyster. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-2128.pdf |
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