简介:Inapreliminaryinvestigation,RandomAmplifiedPolymorphicDNA(RAPD)analysisandpartialmitochondrialND2genesequencingwereconductedtostudythegeneticvariationoftheIndianmackerel,Rastrelligerkanagurtaalonga450kmstretchofitsdistributiononthewestcoastofPeninsularMalaysia.Atotalof53individualsfrom6populationswereanalyzedusing4RAPDprimersandasub-sampleof15individualswaschosenforsequencingofpartialND2gene.Comparisonbetweenthe2markersrevealedgeneticstructuringintheRAPDresultsbutgenetichomogeneityforND2gene.Basedontheformertheremaybeatleast2geneticallydifferentiatedgroupsofRastrelligerkanagurtaalongthisstretch.