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Record W4415981793 · doi:10.1101/2025.11.05.686843

An amplicon panel for high-throughput and low-cost genotyping of Yesso scallop <i>Mizuhopecten yessoensis</i>

2025· preprint· W4415981793 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Ben Sutherland, Chen Yin V. Walker, Marissa Wright-LaGreca, Chloe Shamash-McLaughlin, Karen Leask, Daniel Roth, Timothy J. Green

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
Canadian institutionsVancouver Island University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsScallopGenotypingPopulationAmpliconSNP genotypingOutbreakAquacultureGenetic diversityHatchery

Abstract

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Abstract The Yesso scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis was imported from Japan to western Canada in the late 1980s to establish an economically viable scallop aquaculture industry. Since this time, the industry in Canada has operated with existing genetic diversity within the broodstock, which is considerably limited relative to wild populations. The sector has not been able to realise its full potential in part due to idiopathic hatchery failures and farm stock collapses due to disease outbreaks associated with the intracellular bacterial pathogen Francisella halioticida . To support Yesso scallop production and breeding, here we generate a low-density, genotyping-by-sequencing amplicon panel using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers that are evenly spaced across the M. yessoensis genome and that show high heterozygosity in Canada and Japan. The panel can also exploit the high genetic polymorphism of the M. yessoensis genome, with de novo SNP calling identifying over 2,500 high quality SNPs within the 579 sequenced amplicons. We demonstrate the utility and versatility of this new genotyping tool for breeding applications including parentage assignment, low density family-based genome-wide association study, trait heritability evaluation to determine potential for genomic selection, and species differentiation (against the weathervane scallop Patinopecten caurinus ). We did not find any genomic regions significantly associated with F. halioticida resistance but did identify potential for genomic selection. We could separate the two species based on genotypes, and we did not see evidence of a past M. yessoensis x P. caurinus hybridization event within the M. yessoensis breeding population at Vancouver Island University. This low-cost genotyping panel is expected to accelerate selective breeding improvements for M. yessoensis in Canada and elsewhere.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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