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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Souto D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438835 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BioMed research international 20170507
The striped venus clams <i>Chamelea gallina</i> and <i>C. striatula</i> are commercially important bivalves inhabiting European and North African coastal waters. The taxonomic status of these taxa has been the subject of debate for decades. In order to elucidate this issue, we generated 5S and 28S ribosomal RNA and H3 histone gene probes and mapped them by fluorescent in situ hybridization to the chromosomes of morphologically identified striped venus clams, collected from four geographically di ...[more]