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ArticleMolecular ecology2026

Range-Wide Genetic Population Structure and Environmental Adaptation in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Provides Insight for Aquaculture.

Madeline G Eppley, Kiran Bajaj, Camille Rumberger, Elisabeth Leung, Nicole Mongillo, Jessica Small, Katie E Lotterhos

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Article in Molecular ecology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Madeline G EppleyDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-853X
Kiran BajajDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5859-3181
Camille RumbergerDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2235-789X
Elisabeth LeungUniversity of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7830-6420
Nicole MongilloDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5154-1843
Jessica SmallAquaculture Genetics & Breeding Technology Center, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2640-8170
Katie E LotterhosDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-2771

Funding

National Science Foundation 2043905
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Selective breeding in aquaculture is necessary to establish food security and meet demand for sustainably produced protein. An informed selective breeding program requires understanding how population structure, environmental adaptation, and human activities shape natural genetic variation in wild conspecifics. Unfortunately, wild variation remains poorly characterised for many commercially important aquaculture species. Here, we conduct the first range-wide study of genomic population structure for the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) across thousands of miles (Texas, USA to Eastern Canada) using a 200K SNP array. We integrate population structure analyses, genotype-environmental associations, and structural variant detection to identify adaptive loci and quantify human-mediated genetic impacts. Our data confirm two ancestral clusters with a phylogeographic break between the Gulf and Atlantic (F

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAquacultureCrassostreaGenetics, PopulationAnimalsEnvironmentGenetic VariationGenotypePhylogeographyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideTexasaquaculturedomesticated speciesenvironmental adaptationevolutionary geneticsshellfish

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PMID42561033
PMCPMC13446745

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