“…Even though there are few studies about genetic structure of wild P. monodon in China, there have been extensive studies of genetic structure of wild P. monodom in Australia and SE Asia (Benzie et al., 1992, 1993; Klinbunga et al., 1998, 1999; Sugama et al., 2002). Alhough some analyses of genetic diversity using allozymes indicated a low level of genetic diversity (Mulley and Latter, 1980; Benzie et al., 1992, 1993; Sugama et al., 2002), the analysis of mitochondrial RFLP polymorphisms (Klinbunga et al., 1998, 1999; Benzie et al., 2002), randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (Tassanakajon et al., 1997, 1998a) and microsatellites (Tassanakajon et al., 1998b; Brooker et al., 2000; Supungul et al., 2000; Xu et al., 2001) all found a greater level of genetic variation. Furthermore, these methods found significant population differentiation in P. monodon between Australia and SE Asia (Benzie et al., 1992, 2002; Klinbunga et al., 1998, 1999; Tassanakajon et al., 1998b; Brooker et al., 2000; Supungul et al., 2000; Xu et al., 2001; Sugama et al., 2002).…”