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Transcriptomic analysis of candidate osmoregulatory genes in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica.
BMC genomics - 20 Jun 2014
Eierman Laura E, Hare Matthew P
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BACKGROUND: The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a euryhaline species that can thrive across a wide range of salinities (5-35). As with all estuarine species, individual oysters must be able to regulate their osmotic balance in response to constant temporal variation in salinity. At the...
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