Molecular phylogenetic and morphometric analysis of population structure and demography of endangered threadfin fish Eleutheronema from Indo-Pacific waters.

ABSTRACT: The threadfin Eleutheronema are the important fishery resources in Indo-Pacific regions and classified as the endangered species with considerable conservation values. Their genetic diversity and population structure remain essentially unknown but are critical for the proper management and sustainable harvests of such important fisheries. Here, the mitochondrial DNA sequences of CO1 and 16s rRNA were determined from 75 individuals of Eleutheronema tetradactylum and 89 individuals of Eleutheronema rhadinum collected from different locations of South China Sea and Thailand coastal waters. Genetic diversity analysis revealed that both E. tetradactylum (Haplotype diversity, H = 0.105-0.211; Nucleotide diversity, π = 0.00017-0.00043) and E. rhadinum (H = 0.074-0.663, π = 0.00013-0.01088) had lo

SUBMITTER: Xiao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8891298 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature