>>
>> 2) Can anyone suggest where I might obtain verified tissue samples for
>> DNA
>> analysis from a variety of conch and whelk species?.  Identifying an
>> unknown tissue sample relies on a phylogenetic analysis of more/less
>> closely related species, and not enough DNA sequence information of
>> relevant gastropod species is in the literature.


Contact Harbor Branch Oceanographic, which is aquaculturing S.
gigas with some success, at:


http://www.hboi.edu/aqua/aqua_home.html

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