>Sorry if it's redundant but is there anything readable on the subject
>ie systematics of mollucs with a "genetic" point of view for the non
>genetician mollusc amateur ?

Hopefully the new edition of the AMS "How to Collect Shells" will contain a
chapter on that.  Most publications that I know of are not very accessible
to the general reader.

I thought of a couple of other specific terms that I used.  18S and 28S are
other genes widely sequenced for systematic work.


Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug