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VOL. 9, ISSUE 11 (2024)
Morphological study and DNA barcoding of Junonia atlites collected from Jharkhand state of India
Authors
Kumar Manoj, Priya Anshu, Ranjan Rakesh, Prasad Sinha Manoranjan, Raipat Bharti Singh
Abstract
Butterflies provide many ecosystem services including pollination, role
in increasing biodiversity, acting as food source for other organisms such as
birds, reptiles, amphibians etc. They are also sensitive to environmental change,
so their numbers can indicate the health of environment. Keeping these
apprehensions in mind, the present work was undertaken to perform
morpho-molecular study of Junonia atlites belonging to Nymphalidae. The
butterflies of the Jharkhand state of India are very poorly studied, some
preliminary works from this region are just limited to preparation of checklist
and hobby studies lacking any scientific explanation and validation. In this
work 10 sites from Jharkhand were surveyed for morpho-molecular studies on Junonia
atlites, the evolutionary relationships among the studied specimens were
determined following the sequencing of CO1 gene, followed by preparation of
distance matrix and phylogenetic tree. Significant variation was exhibited by
specimen collected from Horhap Forest and St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi when
compared with the other eight specimens, which is evident by the matrix score
and phylogenetic tree analysis.
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Kumar Manoj, Priya Anshu, Ranjan Rakesh, Prasad Sinha Manoranjan, Raipat Bharti Singh "Morphological study and DNA barcoding of <i>Junonia atlites</i> collected from Jharkhand state of India". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 9, Issue 11, 2024, Pages 1-7
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