Studying the genetic structure and phylogeny of stranded dolphins in different parts of Persian Gulf- Iran

Project Description

Marine mammals are the aquatics that are distributed in all the waters of the world. Among the marine mammals, dolphins are the most diverse species of the suborders of toothed whales and their identification using morphometric and meristic sometimes is not an easy task. Therefore, molecular techniques were introduced as one of the precise methods of identification of stranded marine mammals, in recent years

In the field of Iran’s marine mammals there is no information and no other studies, except for study of mortality factors, stranding of two groups of dolphins in 2007 and an article on the species of marine mammals in the waters of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, co-written by Broulyk in 2010. For samples collected from fresh corpses of stranded marine mammals off the coast of Iran, morphological features and counting of their teeth were identified, and for the accuracy, molecular methods were used to express the certainty of identification. Interspecies kinship ties were compared and 4 genes were registered in World Bank of gene

Objectives

• Detection of unknown species of dolphins using mitochondrial gene.
• Studying the different interspecies kinship ties of stranded dolphins off the coast of Iran.

Achievements so far

4 genes registered in NCBI World Bank, provided in the table below