Abstract:
The phylogenetic status of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata was preliminarily explored in this study to provide preliminary data for the molecular genetics research of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata. The PCR method was used to amplify the mitochondrial cytochrome b (
Cytb) gene fragment sequence of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata. The sequence length was 624 bp. The Blast comparison analysis was performed on the NCBI by using the NT database to construct a phylogenetic tree and discuss the taxonomic status of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata. The results showed that there was no
Cytb gene information of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata in the database. The sequence amplified in this study had 88% similarity with the
Cytb gene fragments of other species of the Corbicula, and had 77.02%-78.53% similarity with other clam shellfish, indicating that the fragments amplified by PCR were from the
Cytb gene fragment of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata. Based on Kimura's 2-parameter model, the genetic distance between the three individuals of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata was only 0-0.0016, which was far less than that between the species in Corbicula (0.002-0.114) and with
Corbicula was 0.127-0.144, and the genetic distance between the three individuals of Corbicula and the species of Veneridae was 0.282-0.335. The phylogenetic tree showed that the samples of
Cyrenobatissa subsulcata were clustered into one branch independently and clustered with
Corbicula into a large branch with a support degree of 99, which indicated that
Cyrena was closely related to
Corbicula, while had a long genetic distance from Veneridae.