Genetic Relatedness and Variability in Three Marine Angelfish Species Revealed by Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.38150/sajeb.1(6).p244-247Abstract
The arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction was used to estimate the
genetic relationships and variability in three closely related species of angelfishes
(Family Pomacanthidae). Ten random primers were screened to identify
species
â€specific bands in Pomacanthus imperator, P. annularis and Apolemichthys
xanthurus.
The total numbers of scorable bands were 253, in
which the numbers of species
â€specific bands were 153. By this study it was
observed that,
P. imperator was very closer to P. annularis with a genetic
similarity of 0.1322and farthest to
A. xanthurus with the genetic distance of
0.8182. The UPGMA
†neighbour joining tree grouped the three species into
separate clusters emphasizing the distinct species status.
