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Identification of Genes Suitable for DNA Barcoding of Morphologically Indistinguishable Korean Halichondriidae Sponges  

Park, Mi-Hyun (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
Sim, Chung-Ja (Department of Biological Science, Hannam University)
Baek, Jina (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
Min, Gi-Sik (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
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Molecules and Cells / v.23, no.2, 2007 , pp. 220-227 More about this Journal
Abstract
The development of suitable genetic markers would be useful for defining species and delineating the species boundaries of morphologically indistinguishable sponges. In this study, genetic variation in the sequences of nuclear rDNA and the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and 3 (CO1 and CO3) regions were compared in morphologically indistinguishable Korean Halichondriidae sponges in order to determine the most suitable species-specific molecular marker region. The maximal congeneric nucleotide divergences of Halichondriidae sponges in CO1 and CO3 are similar to those found among anthozoan cnidarians, but they are 2- to 8-fold lower than those found among genera of other triploblastic metazoans. Ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS: ITS1 + ITS2) showed higher congeneric variation (17.28% in ITS1 and 10.29% in ITS2) than those of CO1 and CO3. Use of the guidelines for species thresholds suggested in the recent literature indicates that the mtDNA regions are not appropriate for use as species-specific DNA markers for the Halichondriidae sponges, whereas the rDNA ITS regions are suitable because ITS exhibits a low level of intraspecific variation and a relatively high level of interspecific variation. In addition, to test the reliability of the ITS regions for identifying Halichondriidae sponges by PCR, a species-specific multiplex PCR primer set was developed.
Keywords
CO1; CO3; DNA Barcode; Halichondriidae; ITS; Porifera;
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