Efficiency of Universal Barcode Gene (Coxi) on morphologically cryptic mugilidae fishes delineation

• Main Authors: John, Akbar, Kumar, C. Prasanna, Khan, S. Ajmal, Lyla, P.S., Murugan, S., Mohamed, Rozihan, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Journals Inc., USA 2011
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/4205/1/1028-1036.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/4205/; http://academicjournalsinc.com/current.php?jid=1819-3579
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

An effort was made to assess the utility of 650 bp partial Cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (DNA barcode) gene in delineating the members of taxonomically ambiguous marine fin fishes (Family: Mugilidae). To address the issue we used all the 95 barcode sequences of Mugilidae family available at NCBI...