| pathology survey of the short-neck clam ruditapes philippinarum occurring on sandy tidal flats along the coast of ariake bay, kyushu, japan. | the pathological condition of the short-neck clam ruditapes philippinarum was surveyed along the coast of kumamoto, japan, in june 2004. dna sequences of the non-transcribed spacer region and internal transcribed spacer region flanking 5.8s rrna identified perkinsus olseni among the clams. ray's fluid thioglycollate medium assay indicated that 96.7% of the clams surveyed from the kiguchi river tidal flat (native clams, stn kr-n) and 96.7% of the clams surveyed from the midori river tidal flat (s ... | 2008 | 18602398 |