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Identification of Single-Locus PCR-Based Markers Linked to Shell Background Color in the Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas)

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A number of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) with golden shell background color were obtained which show great potential to develop a niche market. To improve the selective breeding progress of true-breeding strains with complete golden oysters, research was conducted to identify genetic markers linked to the shell color locus. An F1-segregating population was obtained by crossing two oysters with golden shell and white shell. Genomic DNA from eight progenies with golden shell and eight progenies with white shell were equally pooled for amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) screening. In bulked segregant analysis, six out of 225 selective primer pair combinations produced seven polymorphic fragments tightly linked to shell color across the segregating population. The seven AFLP markers were all derived from the golden dam and mapped onto a single linkage group flanking the shell color locus. In conversion of the AFLPs into single-locus PCR-based markers, a sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) marker, named SCARJ8-2, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker, named SNPL2-4, and a simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker, named SSRO11-2, were obtained. These markers obtained in this study will be useful for marker-assisted selection of the Pacific oyster.

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This study was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (2012AA10A405-6), and grants from the 973 Program (2010CB126406) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372524).

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Ge, J., Li, Q., Yu, H. et al. Identification of Single-Locus PCR-Based Markers Linked to Shell Background Color in the Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas). Mar Biotechnol 17, 655–662 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-015-9652-x

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