Logo
International Journal of
Entomology Research
ARCHIVES
VOL. 5, ISSUE 4 (2020)
Morphometry, principle component analysis and DNA barcoding of cox gene in Leucauge decorata (Decorative Spider) of south Bangalore, Karnataka
Authors
Jalajakshi S, Usha Raja Nanthini A
Abstract
The present study aims at attempting to describe morphology, morphometry, PCA BLAST analysis and phylogenetic construction of Leucauge decorata spider of suburban area of south Bangalore from Turahalli forest region. The five males and six female L.decorata spiders were collected and preserved in 70% alcohol for morphological study. Few were stored in -800C freezer for DNA extraction and for further analysis. The morphological study revealed that females were larger in size (5.60mm) compared to males (1.13mm). The PCA data revealed that 1st principle component accounts for 83.873 % of total variance (0.271 weightage) on opisthosoma breadth ventral view as its dominant term and the 2nd principle component whose dominant term was the total body breadth ventral view with a 7.891 % of total variance (weightage 0.035). The points filled as two obvious clusters confirming the succinct sexual dimorphic feature of the spiders. The DNA extraction was carried over by cTAB method. cytochrome oxidase I gene (CoxI) has a significance of exhibiting fast mutation rate hence, forward and reverse primers were constructed and PCR analysis was performed. BLAST programme was employed to find the similarity between the closely related species and maximum likelihood method was used to construct phylogenetic tree. The branch point or internal nodes represented the most common ancestor. At each branch point lies the most recent common ancestor of all the groups descended from that branch point. Finally, the BLAST analysis gave 100% similarity matching to Leucauge decorata spider from the already existing database
Download
Pages:78-84
How to cite this article:
Jalajakshi S, Usha Raja Nanthini A "Morphometry, principle component analysis and DNA barcoding of cox gene in <em>Leucauge decorata (</em>Decorative Spider<em>)</em> of south Bangalore, Karnataka". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 5, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 78-84
Download Author Certificate

Please enter the email address corresponding to this article submission to download your certificate.