Iyiola, OA and Shaibu, RD and Oladipo, SO and Kareem, KO and Nneji, LM and Adeola, AC and Anifowoshe, AT and Matouke, MM (2022) Population Genetic Structure of Three Cichlids in Ilorin, North-Central Nigeria. In: Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 46 (1). pp. 1-9.
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Abstract
Cichlids are among the economically important which serve as a source of food for people around the world. A deep understanding of the population structure and genetic diversity of cichlids are vital for initiation of conservation policies and sustainable aquaculture. There is paucity of information on the patterns of genetic variations among and within cichlids in North-central Nigeria. This study, therefore, investigated population genetic structure of Coptodon zillii, Oreochromis niloticus, and Hemichromis fasciatus collected from different freshwater bodies in North-central Nigeria. Genomic DNA was extracted, and five highly polymorphic RAPD primers were used for RAPD-PCR amplification and genotyping of the fish. Genetic polymorphism within and between the three tilapia species were examined. Percentages of polymorphism loci, pairwise population matrix, analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), and genetic distances of cichlid populations were determined using standard methods, and dendrograms were constructed using an un-weighted pair group method of arithmetic mean (UPGMA). Overall, percentages of estimated molecular variance within and among C. zillii, H. fasciatus and O. niloticus populations were 5 and 95; 4 and 96 and 13 and 87, respectively. Our results suggest that the three cichlids have close evolutionary relationship and there were no distinct genetic differences on the basis on sampling locations. C. zillii and H. fasciatus are more genetically closer than O. niloticus. This study concludes that RAPD is useful in studying the population genetic structure of cichlids. This study therefore recommends conservation of genetic pool of cichlid species through proper maintenance and restoration of polluted habitat to guarantee sustainable fishery production. However, markers such as microsatellite DNA can be assayed in further studies for better results. © The Author(s), 2022.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine |
| Publisher: | University of Baghdad, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to authors. |
| Keywords: | genomic DNA, Article; cichlid; Coptodon zillii; gene locus; genetic distance; genetic polymorphism; genetic variability; genotyping; Hemichromis fasciatus; Nigeria; nonhuman; Oreochromis niloticus; phylogenetic tree; population genetic structure; random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2024 10:50 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2024 10:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/86315 |
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