Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor) collected from Peninsular Malaysia
Shell morphological characters and allozyme electrophoresis were used to study the relationships among six geographical populations of land snails collected from Peninsular Malaysia. Allozyme electrophoresis was used to study the genetic variations to complement the morphological features studied...
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| author | Choh, M. S. Yap, Chee Kong Tan, Soon Guan Ali, Jambari |
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| description | Shell morphological characters and allozyme electrophoresis were used to study the relationships
among six geographical populations of land snails collected from Peninsular Malaysia. Allozyme electrophoresis
was used to study the genetic variations to complement the morphological features studied that included
shell lengths, numbers of whorls and shell colour. Ten loci coding for six enzymes (MDH, LAP, ALP, PGM, G6PDH, and EST) could be reliably scored in samples from the six populations studied. The dendrogram
showed two major clusters with one cluster comprising Subulinidae populations from Perak, Selangor, Johor,
Terengganu, and Pahang while the other cluster included only the Streptaxidae
Huttonella bicolor
(red) population.
The Subulinidae populations were grouped into two subclusters: one subcluster included the
Subulina
sp. populations from Perak, Selangor, and Johor, while the other subcluster included the
Opeas
sp. populations
from Terengganu and Pahang. Morphological features can identify the different families ant therefore they can
complement the allozyme genetic studies on the land snail populations. Like other reports in the literature, our
results also underline the importance of a genetic approach in conjunction with a morphological approach, for
discriminating land snail species. The present results suggest that small land snails, which were similar in
colour but different in sizes, were not of the same family/genus. |
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| spelling | upm-87192015-11-27T01:52:01Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8719/ Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor) collected from Peninsular Malaysia Choh, M. S. Yap, Chee Kong Tan, Soon Guan Ali, Jambari Shell morphological characters and allozyme electrophoresis were used to study the relationships among six geographical populations of land snails collected from Peninsular Malaysia. Allozyme electrophoresis was used to study the genetic variations to complement the morphological features studied that included shell lengths, numbers of whorls and shell colour. Ten loci coding for six enzymes (MDH, LAP, ALP, PGM, G6PDH, and EST) could be reliably scored in samples from the six populations studied. The dendrogram showed two major clusters with one cluster comprising Subulinidae populations from Perak, Selangor, Johor, Terengganu, and Pahang while the other cluster included only the Streptaxidae Huttonella bicolor (red) population. The Subulinidae populations were grouped into two subclusters: one subcluster included the Subulina sp. populations from Perak, Selangor, and Johor, while the other subcluster included the Opeas sp. populations from Terengganu and Pahang. Morphological features can identify the different families ant therefore they can complement the allozyme genetic studies on the land snail populations. Like other reports in the literature, our results also underline the importance of a genetic approach in conjunction with a morphological approach, for discriminating land snail species. The present results suggest that small land snails, which were similar in colour but different in sizes, were not of the same family/genus. Springer Link 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8719/1/Morphological%20and%20allozyme%20studies%20of%20small%20terrestrial%20snails.pdf Choh, M. S. and Yap, Chee Kong and Tan, Soon Guan and Ali, Jambari (2006) Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor) collected from Peninsular Malaysia. Russian Journal of Genetics, 42 (1). pp. 40-48. ISSN 1022-7954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1022795406010054 Snails - Population Snails - Research Genetic research 10.1134/S1022795406010054 English |
| spellingShingle | Snails - Population Snails - Research Genetic research Choh, M. S. Yap, Chee Kong Tan, Soon Guan Ali, Jambari Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor) collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title | Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor)
collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_full | Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor)
collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor)
collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor)
collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_short | Morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( Opeas sp., Subulina sp., and Huttonella bicolor)
collected from Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_sort | morphological and allozyme studies of small terrestrial snails( opeas sp., subulina sp., and huttonella bicolor)
collected from peninsular malaysia |
| topic | Snails - Population Snails - Research Genetic research |
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