Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals PC4 as the Candidate Gene for Thermal Tolerance in Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians).

ABSTRACT: The increasing sea temperature caused by global warming has resulted in severe mortalities in maricultural scallops. Therefore, improving thermal tolerance has become an active research area in the scallop farming industry. Bay scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians) was introduced into China in 1982 and has developed into a vast aquaculture industry in northern China. To date, genetic studies on thermal tolerance in bay scallops are limited, and no systematic screening of thermal tolerance-related loci or genes has been conducted in this species. In the present study, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for thermal tolerance using the Arrhenius break temperature (ABT) indicators of 435 bay scallops and 38,011 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. The GWAS i

SUBMITTER: Zhu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328476 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature