The milkfish, Chanos chanos, is a commercially important cultured species which is distributed throughout south and southeast Asian countries. Captive breeding and seed production techniques have been standardized recently in India and there is a need for analyzing its population structure along the Indian coast. A total of 80 samples from four different locations across the Indian coast were analyzed by using ATPase 6/8 genes. Analysis revealed the existence of 25 haplotypes across populations with the haplotype diversity in the range of 0.5684–0.8053 and the nucleotide diversity varied from 0.001838 to 0.002519. The variation within and among populations accounted for 97.43% and 2.75%, respectively. The observed F_ST values were found to be non-significant (p > 0.05). Results from this study indicated that there is lack of genetic divergence between the populations of milkfish along the Indian coast.

遮目鱼Chanos chanos是商业上重要的养殖物种，分布在整个南亚和东南亚国家。圈养繁殖和种子生产技术最近在印度已经标准化，因此有必要分析其在印度沿岸的种群结构。使用ATPase 6/8基因分析了来自印度海岸四个不同地点的总共80个样品。分析显示，在整个种群中存在25个单倍型，其单倍型多样性在0.5684–0.8053之间，核苷酸多样性在0.001838至0.002519之间变化。人口内部和人口之间的差异分别占97.43％和2.75％。发现观测到的F _ST值不显着（p  > 0.05）。这项研究的结果表明，印度沿海沿岸的遮目鱼种群之间缺乏遗传差异。