Evaluation of genetic characteristics of wild and cultured populations of the Japanese pearl oyster Pinctada fucata martensii by using AFLP markers

Pinctada phuketensis sp. nov. (Bivalvia, Ostreida, Margaritidae), a new pearl oyster species from Phuket, western coast of Thailand

“…All nine Pinctada species have been recorded in Thailand ( Wells et al 2021 ). However, diversity and taxonomic studies of Thai Pinctada species have relied heavily on morphological features, and the research is outdated when compared with studies from other areas, such as the Central Pacific Ocean ( Yu et al 2006 ; Miyake et al 2016 ; Saruwatari et al 2018 ) and Indo-West Pacific ( Colgan and Ponder 2002 ; Cunha et al 2011 ; Reisser et al 2019 ). Considering this fact, we postulate that the diversity of Pinctada species has yet to be fully revealed in Thai waters and adjacent areas.…”

Discriminant analysis of four cultured populations of the pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii, using morphology and single‐nucleotide polymorphism markers

“…Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) (Yu & Chu, 2006) and internal transcribed spacer sequences (Yu, Li, & Chang, 2005) have been applied to study geographical populations of P. fucata martensii , and their results showed that different geographical populations possess abundant genetic diversity. Random amplified polymorphism DNA (Miyake, Isowa, Ishikawa, Komaru, & Kawamura, 2015), intersimple sequence repeat (Lu, 2008), and simple sequence repeat (Tong et al, 2007) markers have also been used to analyze genetic variation and genetic diversity of P. fucata martensii in natural and cultured populations. A. M. Wang and Yan (2003) found that the genetic diversity of natural populations was significantly higher than that of cultured populations.…”