“…Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats is one marker system that recently has become extremely popular for a wide variety of genetic applications in aquaculture (Liu & Cordes ). In recent years, a number of GFP specific microsatellite primer sets have been developed from populations in Australia (Chand, de Bruyn & Mather ), India (Divu, Khushiramani, Malathi, Karunasagar & Karunasagar ; Bhat et al . ), Malaysia (Bhassu, Hassan, Yusoff, Jamari, Shapor & Guan ; Bhassu, See, Hassan, Siraj & Tan ) and Thailand (Chareontawee, Poompuang & Na‐Nakorn ).…”