Striped snakehead (Channa striata) is a freshwater species of early Miocene period belonging to family Channidae. The genetic variability of the snakehead populations in India was not well known. Present study was undertaken using 149 sequences of control region of mitochondrial DNA from seven geographically distinct populations of Indian water, which resulted in 46 haplotypes with 137 variable nucleotide sites (60 singletons and 77 parsimony informative) and the nucleotide frequencies was: A = 33.0, T = 28.1, G = 15.4, and C = 23.5%. The presence of low-frequency of younger haplotypes with a large number of singletons indicates the absence of dominant haplotype. Hierarchical AMOVA showed highly significant genetic differentiation (F_ST = 0.56, p < .00) among the populations. The pattern of genetic differentiation was not consistent with geographical distributions. AMOVA identified three genetically heterogeneous clades. The significant finding of Imphal and Chaliyar was that they were found genetically close to each other, but geographically much isolated from each other. The inference of the study suggests that the hypothesis of the single panmictic population of C. striata in Indian waters is rejected.

条纹蛇头（Channa striata）是中新世早期的淡水物种，属于Channidae家族。印度蛇头种群的遗传变异性尚不清楚。目前的研究是使用来自印度水的7个地理上不同的种群的线粒体DNA控制区的149个序列进行的，这产生了46个单倍型，具有137个可变核苷酸位点（60个单例和77个简约信息），核苷酸频率为：A = 33.0， T = 28.1，G = 15.4，C = 23.5％。具有大量单例的年轻单倍型的低频出现表明不存在优势单倍型。等级AMOVA表现出高度显着的遗传分化（F _ST  = 0.56，p <.00）。遗传分化的模式与地理分布不一致。AMOVA确定了三个遗传异质进化枝。Imphal和Chaliyar的重要发现是，它们在遗传上彼此靠近，但在地理上却彼此隔离。这项研究的推断表明的单随机交配人口的假设下芨在印度海域被拒绝。