LIANG Huafang, XU Xiaopeng, HUANG Zhijiang, et al. The Molecular Phylogeny on Eight Species of Panulirus Genus from the Chinese Coast Based on COI Gene Sequence[J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis SunYatseni, 2011,50(6):94-98.
LIANG Huafang, XU Xiaopeng, HUANG Zhijiang, et al. The Molecular Phylogeny on Eight Species of Panulirus Genus from the Chinese Coast Based on COI Gene Sequence[J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis SunYatseni, 2011,50(6):94-98.DOI:
To study the phylogeny and select a DNA barcode for classification
the mitochondrial COI genes of eight lobster species
belong to the genus Panulirus
distributing along the coast of China were sequenced and analyzed. The genetic distance was calculated using MEGA4.0
and the phylogenetic trees were constructed with NeighborJoining (NJ) and Maximum Parsimony (MP) methods. The obtained COI gene fragments were 731 bp with GC contents ranging from 40.2% to 44.5%. The intraspecific genetic distances of these eight species
ranging from 0.00~0.057 with an average of 0.016
are small
and the interspecific genetic distances
ranging from 0.124 to 0.228 with an average of 0.185
are more than ten times higher than those of intraspecies. Eight species of Panulirus can be divided into two branches by NJ tree and MP tree: P. japonicus
P. longpies and P. penicillatus belong to a same branch; P. stimpsonic
P. polyphagus
P. versicolor
P. ornatus and P. homarus belong to the other. The results indicated that the COI gene could be a useful DNA barcode for taxonomic identification of lobsters.