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Population genetics of stargazer, Uranoscopus cognatus from Kelantan
waters using CO1 Gene.
Nuramira Binti Ramlan
Supervisor: Dr Tan Min Pau
Bachelor of Science in Agrotechnology (Aquaculture)
School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences
In this study, 28 individuals of Two-spined yellow-tail stargazer, Uranoscopus
cognatus which were benthic marine fish had been collected from three different
populations in Kelantan waters. 537 bps long sequence from the cytochrome oxidase
subunit 1 (CO1) gene from 28 individuals sampled from three different populations in
Kelantan waters were been analyzed. A total of 28 sequences of CO1 fragment of
stargazers, 11 haplotypes were obtained from the analysis. The results obtained shows
that the population structure of the stargazer in Kelantan waters were not structured.
This is because there were all three different populations of stargazers present in one
haplotype. The results also show the haplotype (gene) diversity of the populations
was 0.796 which is quite high. Large population sizes were thought to be responsible
for high haplotype diversity. Meanwhile, the nucleotide diversity was 0.00251 which
was quite low compared to other fish species.
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