supported by grants from the National High Technology Research and Development Program (2012AA10A405-6);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372524);Special Fund for Independent Innovation of Shandong Province (2013CX80202)
Abstract Four successive mass selection lines of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, selected for faster growth in breeding pro- grams in China were examined at ten polymorphic microsatellite loci to assess the lev...