Genetic Insights into the Giant Keyhole Limpet (Megathura crenulata), an Eastern Pacific Coastal Endemic: Complete Mitogenome, Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, and Historical Demography.

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BACKGROUND: The giant keyhole limpet Megathura crenulata is a gastropod mollusk (Fissurella superfamily) that is endemic to the eastern Pacific coast from southern California, USA, to Baja California Sur, Mexico. M. crenulata is socioeconomically important as it produces a potent immune-stimulating protein, called Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin, which is extracted in vivo and utilized for vaccine development. However,...

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