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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 1 Issue 2</issue_number>
<issue_period>2010 (April - June) </issue_period>
<title>Molecular Characterization of Morphologically Similar Four Pieridae Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Insecta) by RAPD-PCR Technique</title>
<abstract>Molecular characterization of four morphologically similar Pieridae butterflies was carried out using RAPD markers. Total 121 bands were scored with 8 decamer primers, of which 115 were polymorphic while 6 were monomorphic and the percentage of polymorphism was 95.04%. Dendrogram based on average similarity coefficient of 08 primers grouped four Pieridae species into two distinct clusters. Cluster-I comprised of 3 species viz. Eurema laeta, E. hecabe and E. blanda, while cluster-II consisted of E. andersonii. Cluster-I further subdivided into two sub-clusters, sub-cluster-I consisting of only Eurema laeta and sub-cluster-II comprised of E. hecabe and E. blanda. Genetic similarities between these four species were discussed on the basis of morphological characters and RAPD data. </abstract>
<authors>Ashish D. Tiple,Sonali V. Padwad,Vishal P. Deshmukh</authors>
<keywords>Butterflies, Genetic diversity, Molecular characterization, Pieridae, RAPD </keywords>
<pages>-</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
