<br/>The purpose of this project was to test different species of fish samples available to the retail market in New Haven and Fairfield County to identify their DNA code and see if the label that is given to the sample in the retail market is correct. This process was done using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the cytochrome oxidase I (COI)gene specific sequences. The products were sequenced and the bioinformatics assessment was conducted to obtain the genus and species of the sample. Out of the 25 samples that were sequenced and processed, 5 came back as mislabeled. The Zoarces gillii was one of the mislabeling found its origin comes from the Koreas and the yellow sea. The research yielded results that fish are being mislabeled by 20% in the retail market and the fish are coming from all over the world.<br/>

Fish DNA barcoding in Connecticut

256th National Meeting (2018)

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