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VETERINARY SCIENCES
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci8050075
Keywords
African catfish; SCAR; polyploidy; genetic distance
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- Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
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This study aimed to examine the use of RAPD markers in discriminating triploid and diploid African catfish, but the results showed that RAPD markers cannot be used to separate the ploidy status of fishes.
This study was designed to examine the use of RAPD markers in discriminating triploid and diploid African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822). Following a routine technique, triploidy was induced by cold shock and confirm by erythrocyte measurement in C. gariepinus. Thereafter, 80 RAPD markers were screened; out of which, three showed the highest percentage of polymorphism (i.e., OPB 16 = 71.43%; OPC 14 = 61.9%; OPD 12 = 75%). The results obtained showed genotype differences between triploid and diploid without overlapping. However, the development of a Sequence Characterized Amplified Region (SCAR) marker was not achievable because progenies of triploid and diploid C. gariepinus could not be differentiated based on a specific fragment. Consequently, the genetic distance showed high similarities for both treatments and the UPGMA-generated dendrogram could not separate the treatments into two distinct clusters. It was concluded that RAPD makers cannot be used to separate the ploidy status of fishes.
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