Genetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationship of Catfish Order Siluriformes Inferred from Mitochondrial Gene Sequence Variation

Lashari Punhal²*, Muhammad Younis Laghari², Baradi Waryani², Ikram Hussain⁵, Ateeque Rahman Khooharo⁴, Xiaowen Sun¹ and Yan Zhang³

¹Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China
²Department of Fresh Water Biology and Fisheries, University of Sindh, Pakistan
³School of Life Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
⁴Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
⁵Department of Fisheries Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author: Lashari Punhal, Department of Fresh Water Biology and Fisheries, University of Sindh, Pakistan.

Received: March 10, 2018; Published: April 09, 2018

Citation: Lashari Punhal., et al. “Genetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationship of Catfish Order Siluriformes Inferred from Mitochondrial Gene Sequence Variation". Acta Scientific Agriculture 2.5 (2018).

Abstract

  Catfishes order siluriformes includes many commercially and economically important species throughout the world. Here, we in- vestigated genetic relationships and diversity in this order. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analyses revealed considerable variations between mitochondrial CO1 genes among twenty four siluriformes species. The frequencies of nucleotide are 23.80% A, 29.62% T/U, 26.63% C and 19.95% G. Used for calculating ML values, a user-specified topology was used. The highest Log chance for this calculation was -9413.645. Evolutionary diversity over all sequencing average estimated numbers of base substitutions per loca- tion sequence pairs were 4.984. Our results suggest that Batasio travancoria formed a single clade; R. rita, W. attu, M. montanus and B. bagarius comprised a single separate family; and M. vittatus, M. horai, B. tengana, M. malabaricus, M. bacourti, M. singaringan, M. bleekeri, M. gulio, M. multiradiatus, M. rhegma, M. cavasius, M. tengara, S. aor, S. seenghala, B. bajad, B. filamentosus, B. macracanthus, P. siamensis, E. vacha and B. travancoria formed single subfamily.

Keywords: COI; Siluriformes; Genetic Diversity; Phylogeny

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