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Crosses using virgin oyster drills (Urosalpinx cinerea) show that both the ODH and LAP loci of foot muscle tissue have two co-dominant alleles segregating in Mendelian fashion. This constitutes the first demonstration of allozyme inheritance in a marine gastropod.
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Cole, T. Inheritance of allozymes of a marine snail (Urosalpinx cinerea). Heredity 41, 399–402 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1978.110
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