Control Region-Mitochondrial Partial DNA analysis of Humphead Wrasse [Cheilinus Undulates (Ruppel, 1835)] from Anambas Islands, Indonesia

Humphead wrasse [Cheilinus undulates (Ruppel, 1835)] known as one of the threatened species and had been being classified as Appendix II-type species. Nevertheless, Indonesia has a unique issue for its species, especially in Anambas Islands. Anambas island's fishermen have been successfully developed ranching-like mechanism of humphead wrasse's culture for last five decades, approximately. Against the major opinions, either juvenile or up to ten kilograms humphead wrasse could be found in Anambas fishermen's cages, abundantly. This investigation reported partial control region-mtDNA sequence analysis provided from caudal fin of Anambas humphead wrasse. Sequence comparisons were conducted by using reference reported sequence provided by NCBI genbank. mtDNA analysis resulted among all examined samples collected from Anambas islands shows no significant genetic variation. This concludes that collected Anambas humphead wrasse samples were indicated as one genetic population. Though, dissimilarities of nucleotides and amino acid sites among Anambas humphead wrasse and reference samples were observed significantly different, genetically. This phenomenon indicated that Anambas humphead wrasse possibly belonging specified genetic characteristic compared to humphead wrasse from reference sequence.