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Vol. 56, 2017 (update: 2017.9.11; 10.02) Population Structure of the Blue Swimmer Crab Portunus pelagicus in Coastal Areas of Malaysia Inferred from MicrosatellitesChuan Jian Chai1, Yuzine Bin Esa1,2,*, Muhammad Fadhil Syukri Ismail1,2, and Mohd. Salleh Kamarudin1 doi:10.6620/ZS.2017.56-26 1Department
of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia,
43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. E-mail: ccj1991@hotmail.my (Chai);
msalleh@upm.edu.my (Kamarudin) (Received 13 May 2017; Accepted 5 September 2017; Communicated by Benny K.K. Chan) Chuan Jian Chai, Yuzine Bin Esa, Muhammad Fadhil Syukri Ismail, and Mohd Salleh Kamarudin (2017) Portunus pelagicus, distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific region, is one of the large and edible species of blue swimmer crabs. Increasing demand for the frozen and canned crabmeat industry worldwide has now relied mainly on P. pelagicus which in turn generates splendid income for the fisherman communities. In the present study, the population genetic structure of P. pelagicus was examined using six pairs of microsatellite loci. A total of 87 crab samples were collected from five different coastal areas of Malaysia. Genomic DNA was extracted from each sample for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and fragment analysis. Four out of six microsatellite primers revealed polymorphic loci in P. pelagicus sampled. The number of alleles per locus in P. pelagicus ranged from 14 to 34. Microsatellites analyses indicated low levels of genetic differentiation among the P. pelagicus populations. The average observed heterozygosity (HO = 0.48) obtained was lower than the standard heterozygosity found in most marine populations (HO = 0.79). The high FIS values (mean FIS = 0.4756) and low FST values (mean FST = 0.0413) also suggested the existence of inbreeding among different populations of P. pelagicus. In conclusion, this study was able to shed light on the population structure of P. pelagicus in coastal areas of Malaysia. Key words: Portunus pelagicus, Blue swimmer crabs, Population genetic structure, Microsatellites. Correspondence: E-mail: yuzine@upm.edu.my Citation: Chai CJ, Esa YB, Ismail MFS, Kamarudin MS. 2017. Population structure of the blue swimmer crab Portunus pelagicus in coastal areas of Malaysia inferred from microsatellites. Zool Stud 56:26. doi:10.6620/ZS.2017.56-26.
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