The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the northern Ariake Sea, Japan

Camara, M. D., J. P. Davis, M. Sekino, D. Hedgecock, G. Li, C. J. Langdon, and S. Evans. 2008. The Kumamoto oyster Crassostrea sikamea is neither rare nor threatened by hybridization in the northern Ariake Sea, Japan. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:313-322.

This paper gives the results of an expedition to Japan to find and return stocks of the Kumamoto oyster. The acknowledgements section thanks Sam King, a Pacific Hybreed investor, for a generous gift to the University of Southern California for travel costs for D. H. and subsequent analysis of calmodulin gene sequences.