Identification and re-evaluation of freshwater catfishes through DNA barcoding.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Catfishes are globally demanded as human food, angling sport and aquariums keeping thus are highly exploited all over the world. North-East India possess high abundance of catfishes and are equally exploited through decades. The strategies for conservation necessitate understanding the actual species composition, which is hampered due to sporadic descriptions of the species through traditional taxonomy. Therefore, actual catfish diversity in this region is important to be studied through the combined approach of morphological and molecular technique of DNA barcoding.

Methodology/principal findings

Altogether 75 native catfish specimens were collected from across the North-East India and their morphological features were compared with the taxonomic keys. The detail

SUBMITTER: Bhattacharjee MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3499493 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature