Table 2. Samples successfully identified as P. canaliculus in each experiment.

Numbers in parenthesis relate to number of samples tested, and are followed by the number of samples that were successfully amplified.

		Mitochondrial Amplicons			Nuclear Amplicon
	Collection (month)	Pcan(305 bp)	qPCR Pcan(305 bp)	COX1(191 bp)	Chitin Synthase(198 bp)
Aged shells	0 (n = 10)	8	(n = 10) 9	9	8
	1 (n = 10)	10	(n = 9) 9	10	7
	2 (n = 10)	9		9	–
	4 (n = 10)	7		9	–
	5 (n = 8)	8		8	–
	6 (n = 10)	10	(n = 9) 9	10	1
	7 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	8 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	9 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	10 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	11 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	12 (n = 10)	10		10	–
	13 (n = 10)	10	(n = 8) 8	10	3
	N total = 128	Average= 95.3%	Average= 97.2%	Average= 97.7%	Average= 47.5%