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Journal of Entomology

Year: 2019 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 82-90
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Abdu Mas`ud

Abdu Mas`ud

Sundari

Nurhasanah

Chumidach Roini

Mohamad Amin

Fatchur Rohman

Alisi

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Background and Objective: Ornithoptera croesus toeantei is an endemic butterfly in the island of Morotai north Maluku discovered by Parrot and Schmid at 1894. The existence of this butterfly as an endemic species has not been published yet. The objective of this study is to analyze the genetic variability of O.c. toeantei based on the morphological characters and molecular PCR-RAPD in several level of altitude of hotspots on the Morotai Island. Materials and Methods: This research was conducted using the morphometric description method and the RAPD-PCR method. The data were analyzed descriptively qualitatively in the UPGMA cluster pattern using the MPSV program version 3.22. Results: The result of the study informs that in general an endemic of O.c. toeantei has a high genetic diversity on intraspecies level. The value of 0.56 on the morphometric dendrogram and 0.56 on the molecular dendrogram RAPD showed that the similarity between clusters on morphological characters is in line with the character of molecular-RAPD. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is a similarity on the clustering pattern between UPGMA analysis at morphometric and molecular-RAPD character of O.c. toeantei which showed that the level of the altitude gives some influences to the genetic diversity.
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Abdu Mas`ud, Sundari, Nurhasanah, Chumidach Roini, Mohamad Amin, Fatchur Rohman and Alisi, 2019. Genetic Variability of Ornithoptera croesus toeantei Endemic Butterfly in Morotai Island, Based on Morphology and Molecular. Journal of Entomology, 16: 82-90.

DOI: 10.3923/je.2019.82.90

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=je.2019.82.90

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