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Mitochondrial DNA (Cytochrome c oxidase I) sequencing of Indian marine mussels

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Title Mitochondrial DNA (Cytochrome c oxidase I) sequencing of Indian marine mussels
 
Creator Divya, P R
Gopalakrishnan, A
Lijo, J
Thomas, P C
Lakra, W S
 
Subject Fish Genetics
Mussel culture
 
Description Two species of marine mussels, the green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) and the brown mussel Perna indica (Kuriakose
and Nair, 1976) are found along the Indian coast. It had been suggested that P. indica, which occurs only along the Indian
coast, is a synonym of the globally distributed Perna perna. Along the south-west coast of India, where both P. viridis and
P. indica co-exist, a third type referred to as parrot mussel, which has shell shape of brown mussel and color of green mussel
(suspected to be their hybrid/morphotype) also occurs. The present investigation is a preliminary attempt for resolving the
taxonomic ambiguity among Indian marine mussel species using the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene.
P. indica revealed 95% sequence similarity to P. perna. The sequence divergence between P. indica and parrot mussel was
negligibly low (< 2%). Green mussel P. viridis showed 20.87% of sequence divergence with brown mussel P. indica as well
as with the parrot mussel.
 
Date 2009
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6808/1/Mitochondrial_DNA.pdf
Divya, P R and Gopalakrishnan, A and Lijo, J and Thomas, P C and Lakra, W S (2009) Mitochondrial DNA (Cytochrome c oxidase I) sequencing of Indian marine mussels. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 56 (3). pp. 223-226.