INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Heavy metal Lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) are toxic elements that accumulate in marine invertebrates, so these animals are often used as indicators of environmental pollution in marine waters. This research was conducted at the Rupat Strait, Indonesia. The aim of this research is analyzing the Pb and Cd content in the flesh of the razor clam (P. acutidens) and their correlation with the genetic diversity. The results show that the highest Pb and Cd contents were recorded in specimens from St.1 (0.0711 and 0.0020 mg/kg), followed by St. 2 (0.0693 and 0.0009 mg/kg), and from St. 3 (0.0008 and 0.0016 mg/kg). Reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree with the neighbor join model using the Kimura-2 model divides all samples into 2 clades. The first clade contains samples from St. 2 and St.3, which show closer genetic kinship compared to samples from St.2. Alignment of the sequencing results using the MEGA X application shows that there are differences in the arrangement of nitrogen bases in samples from St. 1 compared to St.2 and St.3. The results of the phylogenetic tree reconstruction showed that the clam from Selensing (St.1) with the highest Pb and Cd content, had distant relatives with clams originating from Bandar Bakau (St.2) and Darul Aman (St.3). Significant changes in the nitrogen base composition of Selensing (St.1) samples indicated that high heavy metal content may affect the genetics diversity of the clams.
Keywords:
heavy metals, marine pollution, genetic diversity, clades, bioaccumulators
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"LEAD AND CADMIUM CONTENT AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF RAZOR CLAM (Pharella acutidens) IN RUPAT STRAIT, INDONESIA", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c448-c457, February-2024, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2402252.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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