SNPs markers for the heavily overfished tambaqui Colossoma macropomum, a Neotropical fish, using next-generation sequencing-based de novo genotyping

  • José Gregorio Martínez
  • , Valéria Nogueira Machado
  • , Susana J. Caballero-Gaitán
  • , Maria da C.Freitas Santos
  • , Rodrigo Maciel Alencar
  • , Maria Doris Escobar L
  • , Tomas Hrbek
  • , Izeni Pires Farias

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Abstract

We developed nuclear SNPs for the heavily overfished tambaqui/cachama negra Colossoma macropomum using next-generation sequencing-based genotyping. We created a reduced-representation library for 30 individuals from Orinoco and Amazon basins following the ddRAD methodology for sequencing on the IonTorrent PGM. We analyzed the sequence data using the software Stacks. We detected 22,476 tags characterized by 7,181 polymorphic sites, recovering 177 loci (268 SNPs) shared between both basins. A significant difference in the allelic frequencies was observed between basins for a subset of these SNPs. Thirty-nine SNPs could be useful for conservation/population genetics using traditional PCR-based genotyping methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)29-33
Number of pages5
JournalConservation Genetics Resources
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics

Keywords

  • Conservation/population genomics
  • De novo SNPs development
  • IonTorrent PGM
  • Orinoco/Amazon basins

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