TITLE:
DNA Barcoding of Common Commercial Sea Catfish (Genus: Plicofollis) from Kuwait
AUTHORS:
Bahia Al-Zafiri, Mahmoud Magdy, Ramadan Ahmed Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Abdel-Salam Rashed
KEYWORDS:
DNA Barcoding, Commercial Fish Species, Sea Catfish, Kuwait
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Molecular Biology,
Vol.8 No.2,
April
19,
2018
ABSTRACT: Kuwait fish market is one of the richest markets of native marine fish species. Sea catfishes are not very important in economic point of view, and only few of them (four species) are present and mistakenly, they all
named (Chem). Using DNA barcode technique, the common sea catfish present in
the East major fish market (Sharq) was analyzed. Based on the most common
species ID databases (Barcoding of life database, BOLD and NCBI database), the
most proposal identification that is compatible with major survey in 1997, the
sea catfish is Plicofollis tenuispinis, the thin-spin sea catfish
with similarity 100% and phylogenetic support of 78% bootstrap value. This is
the first application of DNA barcode technique to thin-spine sea catfish of
Kuwait.