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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Venustaconcha pleasii"”.
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Genetic and Life History Characteristics of Venustaconcha Ellipsiformis and Venustaconcha Pleasii (Bivalvia, Unionidae) in the Ozark Plateaus Region
… mussels in river systems of the Ozark Plateaus. Venustaconcha pleasii (White River system) exhibited fixed electrophoretic allelic differences from V. ellipsiformis (Osage and Meramec basins) at 3 of 11 loci, and a 3.9% sequence divergence (mtCOI gene, 330 bp). Shell size and shape also differed …
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Sex-Associated Mitochondrial Genes: Tools for Understanding Unionid Reproduction and Development
… I investigated this hypothesis in Bleedingtooth (Venustaconcha pleasii). Sperm samples were obtained from field-collected males that spawned spontaneously in the lab. M-ORF and F-ORF mitochondrial DNA were cloned and sequenced, and PCR was used to test for the presence of M-ORF and F-ORF genes …