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Advances in Zoology and Botany Vol. 11(6), pp. 426 - 433
DOI: 10.13189/azb.2023.110603
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Molecular Phylogeny of Venus Clams (Bivalvia: Veneridae) Inferred through Mitochondrial Genome Analyses 鈥� A Review
Anit Annamma Mathew *, M. Ampili
Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology, NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry, India
ABSTRACT
Veneridae is the morphologically diverse and commercially important heterodont bivalve family. Morphological parallelism, shell polymorphism and the study based on conchological characters create problems in the phylogeny of venus clams. Over several decades, the study based on external morphology became a matter of debate. Controversies existed in the taxonomic status of many members of the family Veneridae. To overcome these problems, mitochondrial genome study or the use of mitochondrial markers is widely adopted. Mitochondrial large ribosomal subunits 16S, 12S and mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit I are the most powerful tools currently used in phylogenetic analyses. The results were obtained through maximum-parsimony (MP), neighbor-joining (NJ), minimum evolution (ME) analyses and Bayesian method. The complete mitochondrial genome of more than 30 venerid species was already analyzed. Current article peruses the studies that give the accurate taxonomic position of the members, the relatedness between species, genetically distant species and sequence divergence among different taxa. The mitogenomics method has become the most advanced technique to draw accurate conclusions in evolutionary relationship, population genetics and helps in species identification. Nowadays, a combined morphological and molecular methods were used to resolve the phylogenetic relationship. Recently, ITS2 and cytogenetic studies have gained much attention and they help to interpret many facts which create a breakthrough in the bivalve studies. This short review attempts to summarize the recent studies on the molecular phylogenetics of members of the family Veneridae on the basis of mitochondrial genome analyses.
KEYWORDS
Veneridae, Mitochondrial Markers, Phylogeny, Mitogenome
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Anit Annamma Mathew , M. Ampili , "Molecular Phylogeny of Venus Clams (Bivalvia: Veneridae) Inferred through Mitochondrial Genome Analyses 鈥� A Review," Advances in Zoology and Botany, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 426 - 433, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2023.110603.
(b). APA Format:
Anit Annamma Mathew , M. Ampili (2023). Molecular Phylogeny of Venus Clams (Bivalvia: Veneridae) Inferred through Mitochondrial Genome Analyses 鈥� A Review. Advances in Zoology and Botany, 11(6), 426 - 433. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2023.110603.