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Tasmanian Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, in Washington State: a morphological, physiological, and molecular genetic analysis of an introduced population
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Tasmanian Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, in Washington State: a morphological, physiological, and molecular genetic analysis of an introduced population
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Kittel, Manfred T
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Theses--Fisheries
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Domestication by selective breeding requires specific knowledge of performance-related traits in commercially exploited aquaculture species. A small number of deep-cupped Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, were transferred from a Tasmanian shellfish hatchery to Washington state. Thirty-four of these were spawned to establish an F1 generation. F1 Tasmanian oysters were grown in the field in comparative growout trials and their survival, growth rate, and shell morphology were monitored. During...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999 |
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2009-10-05T23:14:34Z
2009-10-05T23:14:34Z 1999 |
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Thesis
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vi, 221 p.
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b43952392
44070888 Thesis 48903 http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5396 |
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en_US
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