The present study documents the isolation of eight polymorphic microsatellite markers from the bighead catfish, Clarias macrocephalus and cross-amplification in two other catfish species. The number of alleles per locus in C. macrocephalus ranged from 2 to 21. The most polymorphic locus was NCm-G12 with 21 alleles while the least polymorphic locus was NCm-H2 with only two alleles. Locus NCm-F8 significantly deviated from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P value <0.05) after Bonferroni correction. Linkage disequilibrium was non-significant in all loci comparisons. The observed and expected heterozygosities varied from 0.033 to 0.967 and from 0.033 to 0.942, respectively. Mean polymorphic information content for the eight loci was 0.765. Cross-amplification was successfully performed with two other catfish species, C. batrachus and C. meladerma for all eight loci. Locus NCm-D8 was monomorphic in both species while NCm-F8 was monomorphic only in C. batrachus. These newly developed markers would be useful for better management and conservation of the economically important C. macrocephalus species.
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