International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials

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Genetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationships among Microsporidian Isolates from the Indian Tasar Silkworm, Antheraea mylitta, as Revealed by RAPD Fingerprinting Technique

  • Hassan, Wazid (Molecular Pathology Division, Seribiotech Research Laboratory, Central Silk Board, CSB Campus) ;
  • Nath, B. Surendra (Molecular Pathology Division, Seribiotech Research Laboratory, Central Silk Board, CSB Campus)
  • Received : 2014.10.20
  • Accepted : 2014.12.29
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

In this study, we investigated genetic diversity of 22 microsporidian isolates infecting tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta collected from various geographical forest locations in the state of Jharkhand, India, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based marker assay: random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). A type species, NIK-1s_mys was used as control for comparison. The shape of mature microsporidians was found to be oval to elongate, measuring 3.80 to $5.10{\mu}m$ in length and 2.56 to $3.30{\mu}m$ in width. Of the 20 RAPD primers screened, 16 primers generated reproducible profiles with 298 polymorphic fragments displaying high degree of polymorphism (97%). A total of 14 RAPD primers produced 45 unique putative genetic markers, which were used to differentiate the microsporidians. Calculation of genetic distance coefficients based on dice coefficient method and clustering with un-weighted pair group method using arithmetic average (UPGMA) analysis was conducted to unravel the genetic diversity of microsporidians infecting tasar silkworm. The similarity coefficients varied from 0.059 to 0.980. UPGMA analysis generated a dendrogram with four microsporidian groups, which appear to be different from each other as well as from NIK-1s_mys. Two-dimensional distribution based on Euclidean distance matrix also revealed considerable variability among different microsporidians identified from the tasar silkworms. Clustering of few microsporidian isolates was in accordance with the geographic origin. The results indicate that the RAPD profiles and specific/unique genetic markers can be used for differentiating as well as to identify different microsporidians with considerable accuracy.

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