Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 80-89.doi: 10.11978/2019012CSTR: 32234.14.2019012

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Morphological and SNP markers for analysis of genetic structure of hybrid progeny and their parental populations of Pinctada fucata martensii

HUANG Jing1,2,3, PAN Xiaolan1,2,3, XU Meng1,2,3, LIU Wenguang1,3, ZHANG Hua1,3, HE Maoxian1,3()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
  • Received:2019-01-21 Revised:2019-02-27 Online:2019-11-20 Published:2019-11-26
  • Contact: Maoxian HE E-mail:hmx2@scsio.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(CARS-49)

Abstract:

The pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii, is a primary marine bivalve species. To study the genetic structure and relationship of cultured parents and their hybrid generation, external morphology and genetic structure were assessed in the three populations of P. fucata martensii from Shenzhen population (female), Hainan population (male) and their hybrid generation F1, based on morphological multivariate analysis and SNP markers. The results showed that the average discriminant accuracy was 72%, and the morphological characteristics of F1 and female were similar, while male was the most different from the other two populations. Four SNP markers of the three populations were genotyped by the HRM (high resolution melting) method. The results showed that the average observed (Ho) and expected (He) heterozygosity were 0.2110 to 0.2879 and 0.3317 to 0.4685, respectively; and the heterozygosity of F1 was higher than that of the parent populations. The average polymorphism information content (PIC) values of the three populations were in the range of 0.2643 to 0.3556, which showed moderate genetic diversity. Gene flow (Nm) between F1 and female was the largest (7.7701), with minimum genetic distance being 0.0546; thus, their genetic relationships were similar. Gene flow (Nm) between the parent populations was minimum (1.9662), with largest genetic distance being 0.1759. Finally, we found that rs8 marker can be used as a specific marker to discriminate parent populations. These results should assist the discriminate of genetic structure and management of selective breeding of P. fucata martensii.

Key words: Pinctada fucata martensii, genetics, genetic structure, morphology, SNP