Using CO1 Gene As A DNA Barcode For Identifying Unknown Shark Species

Material and MethodsA short DNA sequence from a standardized region also called a DNA barcode has been upgraded as the best identifier of unknown species (Rach et al. 2017). The mitochondrial CO1 gene region also called cytochrome oxidase 1 has been crowned as the universal DNA barcoding for the metazoan organisms (Herbert et al. 2003). The CO1 gene has some features that make it of primary importance in evolutionary studies (Rach et al. 2017)…