Close genetic relatedness of whale sharks, Rhincodon typhus in the Indo-Pasific region

Toha, Abdul Hamid; Widodo, N; Subhan, B; Himawan, R; Tania, C; Noor, BA; Stewart, BS; MAdduppa, HH

dc.contributor.author	Toha, Abdul Hamid
dc.contributor.author	Widodo, N
dc.contributor.author	Subhan, B
dc.contributor.author	Himawan, R
dc.contributor.author	Tania, C
dc.contributor.author	Noor, BA
dc.contributor.author	Stewart, BS
dc.contributor.author	MAdduppa, HH
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-18T12:29:16Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-18T12:29:16Z
dc.date.issued	2016-01-12
dc.identifier.issn	1844-9166
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.unipa.ac.id:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/916
dc.description.abstract	The goal of our study was to evaluate genetic diversity of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) observed in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia, compared with that of whale sharks elsevhere in the Indo-Pacific region using mitochondrial DNA. We collected tissue samples from 31 whale sharks, virtually all adolescent males, in Cenderawasih Bay and then extracted, amplified, and sequenced mitochondrial DNA from the cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI) gene of the mtDNA COI gene. Genetic diversity of whale sharks in Cenderawasih Bay was low. We detected seven haplotypes and estimated haplotype diversity of 0.187 and nucleotide diversity at 0.002. The average number of pairwise differences was 0.254. These data suggest that the whale sharks that we encountered in Cenderawasih Bay were closely related and less related to whale sharks elsewhere in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.	en_US
dc.publisher	AACL Bioflux	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	9;3
dc.subject	Rhincodon typus, Cenderawasih Bay, haplotype diversity, nucleotide diversity, Coral Triangle	en_US
dc.title	Close genetic relatedness of whale sharks, Rhincodon typhus in the Indo-Pasific region	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US