Abstract
The rainbow clam Moerella iridescens is an ecologically important small marine clam located along China’s coastlines, as well as the Northwest Pacific coasts. Among 75 M. iridescens sequences from the total tissue transcriptome database, 29 show polymorphisms by the resolution melting (HRM) method. The observed and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.1500 to 1.0000 and from 0.0526 to 0.5128, respectively. Ten loci were found to deviate significantly from the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (P < 0.01). These SNPs will be useful for future genetic diversity and population assessment and conservation studies of this species.
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This study was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31101900), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), the Innovation and Training Programs for College Students in Huaihai Institute of Technology (Grant No. HYDC16-14), the Projects of Science and Technology Research in Jiangsu Province of China (BN2015057, BY2016056-07) and the Project Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology (Grant No. 2014HS001).
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Dong, Z., Zhang, D., Li, X. et al. Twenty-nine SNP markers developed from the transcriptomics of rainbow clam Moerella iridescens and their application in population genetics. Conservation Genet Resour 10, 277–279 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0801-6
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