Biodiversity In The Shrimp Fisheries From Coastal-Shelf Liner In Egypt

Diversity of shrimp species inhabiting different fishing grounds in Egypt. This study also comprises the first DNA barcoding study performed in the Egyptian fishing grounds using COI. A total of 637 shrimp specimens were collected and analyzed from 4 sites. Generally, the barcoding gap criterion was successful in identifying species; hence, COI appeared to be a good marker of choice for DNA barcoding in this group. In this study, our aims were both to add new barcoding data to BOLD, and to see how our morphological identification compared against subsequent specimen identification using BOLD.