The development of species-specific AFLP-derived SCAR and SSCP markers to identify mantis shrimp species.

Mantis shrimp has become commercially valuable in many countries, while the commercially aquaculture still unsuccessful. The stable supply of the species-specific markers for precise identification can play a key role of foods authentication as well as restoring/enhancing mantis shrimp stocks in future. The aim of this research was to identify species-specific markers for Squillid and Harpiosquillid mantis shrimp taxa using Amplified fragment length polymorphism-Single strand conformation polymorphism (AFLP-SSCP) approaches.