Small Panulirus lobster species found in abundance in Oman and Yemen
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Muscat today] By Swapna Tarafdar Sept. 30, 2014
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) has found that a popular spiny lobster variety, Panulirus homarus, known to be found mainly in the Indo-West Pacific region, is found in abundance in Oman and Yemen as well.
The findings by MoAF’s Marine Sciences and Fisheries Centre could prove beneficial to the sultanate in the form of increased exports of the variety and for aquaculture.
Wahida Nasser Alamry, a specialist in molecular biotechnology at the centre and an investigator of the project said, the species was identified through DNA barcoding – a technique used for characterising species of organisms using a short DNA sequence...
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