New microsatellite loci for estimating genetic diversity and structure in Octopus hubbsorum from Nayarit, México

José de Jesús Dueñas-Romero, José Francisco Domínguez-Contreras, Jasmín Granados-Amores, Adrián Munguía-Vega, Francisco Javier García-Rodríguez

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Abstract

Background: Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953 is the most important species for commercial fishing in the Mexican Pacific. However, there is a lack of information regarding population structure that could have important management implications. We tested 44 microsatellite loci in O. hubbsorum by cross-amplification from O. bimaculatus. Methods and results: Genetic diversity and structure was tested over 30 octopus sampled from Santa Cruz de Miramar (Nayarit, México). A total of 11 loci were successfully amplified. All loci were polymorphic with the number of effective alleles ranging from 2.13 to 23.14, while three loci significantly deviated from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. No significant LD was observed between pairs of loci (P ≥ 0.05). The application of the new markers in a O. hubbsorum population from Santa Cruz de Miramar Nayarit, México, did not showed Wahlund or isolate breaking effects due to the mixing of distinct populations. Conclusions: The loci were useful to estimate levels of pairwise relatedness and to discard the presence of recent demographic bottlenecks in the population.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7007-7012
Number of pages6
JournalMolecular Biology Reports
Volume48
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Genetic diversity
  • Isolate Breaking Effect
  • Mexican Pacific
  • Octopus
  • Wahlund Effect

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