Characterization of oreochromis niloticus strains of yalelo fishery of zambia using morphometric methods
International Journal of Development Research
Characterization of oreochromis niloticus strains of yalelo fishery of zambia using morphometric methods
Received 14th August, 2020; Received in revised form 19th September, 2020; Accepted 10th October, 2020; Published online 30th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Mauris C. Makeche et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Oreochromis niloticus fish was collected from Yalelo Fishery in May, 2020. A Dendrogram was used to delineate the sampled specimens using PC-ORDTM Software and the differences among strains were tested using One-way ANOVA in Statistix 9 Software (P = 0.05). Morphometric analysis showed that the sampled fish could be characterized into eight different strains. These results showed that the tested fish samples could be grouped into 8 types based on morphometric characters. The morphometric differences among the sampled O. niloticus strains may have appeared due to genetic differences among the collected specimens.
