Discrimination of juvenile yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye (T. obesus) Tunas using mitochondrial DNA control region and liver morphology.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035604

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Discrimination of juvenile yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye (T. obesus) Tunas using mitochondrial DNA control region and liver morphology.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Pedrosa-Gerasmio Ivane R, Babaran Ricardo P, Santos Mudjekeewis D

Abstract excerpt

Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) and bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) are two of the most economically important tuna species in the world. However, identification of their juveniles, especially at sizes less than 40 cm, is very difficult, often leading to misidentification and miscalculation of their catch estimates. Here, we applied the mitochondrial DNA control region D-loop, a...

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Animals
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genetic Markers
Liver
Molecular Typing
Phenotype
Phylogeny
Principal Component Analysis
Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Tuna

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PMID: 22536417
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035604
PMCID: PMC3334917

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