RT Journal T1 PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA OTTERS (LUTRA SUMATRANA, LUTROGALE PERSPICILLATA, AND AONYX CINEREUS) BASED ON DNA SEQUENCES OF MITOCHONDRIAL D-LOOP REGION A1 M. K. A Rosli A1 P. Abdul-Patah A1 S. M. F. Syed-Shabthar A1 M. N. Burhanuddin A1 T. Sekiguchiα A1 H. Sasakiβ A1 M. N. Shukor A1 S. Yaakop A1 B. M. Md-Zain¥. JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences JO JAPS SN 1018-7081 VO 25 IS 3 SP 836 OP 843 YR 2015 FD 2015/06/01 DO DOI NA AB

Aonyx cinereus, Lutrogale perspicillata and Lutra sumatrana are three species of the Old World Otter that can be found in Peninsular Malaysia. The main objective of this research was to determine the phylogenetic relationships among these three otter genera using 401 bp DNA sequences of the D-loop region. Tree topologies were reconstructed using the Neighbor-Joining (NJ) and the Maximum Parsimony (MP) methods. Both NJ and MP trees showed that the three Otter species (A. cinereus, L. perspicillata, and L. sumatrana) formed their own monophyletic clade. The results also showed that L. perspicillata and A. cinereus were sister clades and closely related, which is supported by the bootstrap values of 85% (NJ) and 84% (MP). The two species also had a close genetic distance value of 0.031. The clades, consisting of both A.cinereus and L. perspicillata, were formed in a distinct group from L. sumatrana, which was found to be grouped with L. perspicillata in previous morphological studies. The independent monophyletic clade of L. sumatrana was supported by high bootstrap values. These results imply that L. perspicillata does not belong to the same group as L. sumatrana which has been concluded in several previous molecular studies.

K1 Otter, Aonyx cinereus, Lutrogale perspicillata, Lutra sumatrana, Malaysian otter, mtD-loop region PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2015-JAPS-113