Cross-species gene enrichment revealed a single population of Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) with low genetic variation in Bangladesh waters

Abstract Tenualosa ilisha is a popular anadromous and significant trans-boundary fish. For sustainable management and conservation of this fish, drawing an appropriate picture reflecting population status of this species is very essential based on their all-strategic habitats in Bangladesh. In this...

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Autores principales: Anirban Sarker, Junlong Jiang, Habibon Naher, Junman Huang, Kishor Kumar Sarker, Guoxing Yin, Mohammad Abdul Baki, Chenhong Li
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Tenualosa ilisha is a popular anadromous and significant trans-boundary fish. For sustainable management and conservation of this fish, drawing an appropriate picture reflecting population status of this species is very essential based on their all-strategic habitats in Bangladesh. In this study, 139 samples from 18 sites were collected and cross-species gene enrichment method was applied. Like most of the Clupeiforms, nucleotide diversity of this shad was very low (0.001245–0.006612). Population differences between most of the locations were low and not significant (P > 0.05). However, P values of a few locations were significant (P < 0.05) but their pairwise FST values were very poor (0.0042–0.0993), which is inadequate to recognize any local populations. Our study revealed that the presence of a single population in the Bangladesh waters with some admixtured individuals, which may contain partial genes from other populations. Most of the individuals were admixed without showing any precise grouping in the ML IQtree and Network, which might due to their highly migratory nature. Fishes from haors and small coastal rivers were not unique and no genetic differences between migratory cohorts. The hilsa shad fishery should be managed considering it as a single panmictic population in Bangladesh with low genetic diversity.