Molecular attempt to identify prey organisms of lobster phyllosoma larvae |
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Authors: | Nobuaki Suzuki Keisuke Murakami Haruko Takeyama Seinen Chow |
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Institution: | National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka 424-8633,;Minami-izu Sea-Farming Center, Minami-izu, Shizuoka 415-0156,;Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, and;National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 238-0316, Japan |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT: A molecular approach was adopted to investigate the natural diets of palinurid and scyllarid lobster phyllosoma larvae. The central domain of the 18S rDNA gene was amplified using nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and genomic DNA extracted from the larval hepatopancreas. The resulting 18S rDNA clones were screened using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, and then FASTA homology search and phylogenetic analysis were performed on the nucleotide sequences to identify the source of the eukaryotic organisms. The feasibility of this method was confirmed using the laboratory-reared phyllosoma larvae of the Japanese spiny lobster Panulirus japonicus that were fed either with common mussel Mytilus edulis gonads or with Artemia nauplii exclusively. Among the 804 clones isolated from five wild-caught mid- to late-stage phyllosoma larvae (three palinurids and two scyllarids), 0–132 clones per sample possessed restriction profiles distinct from those of the hosts. The Cnidaria and Urochordata DNA were identified from both the palinurid and the scyllarid larvae, which were thought to be prey animals for the mid- to late-stage phyllosoma larvae. |
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Keywords: | 18S rDNA palinurids phyllosoma larvae prey organisms scyllarids |
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