Abstract:In order to evaluate the genetic and breeding potential of selective breeding population of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and Paramisgurnus dabryanus,and provide theoretical and practical basis for the utilization of heterosis and breeding program,PCR amplification and first-generation sequencing technology were used to obtain the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit Ⅰ(COⅠ) gene fragment sequences of four loach species,including self-propagated offsprings of M. anguillicaudatus(M),self-propagated offsprings of P.dabryanus(P),orthogonal offspring(MP) and anti-cross offspring(PM),and then the genetic diversity and evolution history of the four loach species were analyzed.The results showed as follows:(1)The base composition of COⅠ gene fragments in all of the four loaches species were similar,and the content of A+T(54.0%-56.2%) was higher than that of C+G(43.8%-46.4%).(2)A total of 135 polymorphic loci(19.79%) were detected in the 682 loci of COⅠ gene fragment of 4 loach species,including 128 simple information loci and 7 single base variation loci.The main variation included conversion and transposition,without base insertion or deletion.(3)Each of 15 haplotypes was defined in M,P,MP and PM, respectively.The four loach species had the same haplotype diversity of 1.000±0.024,while had different nucleotide polymorphisms as 0.020 66±0.006 48,0.025 80±0.002 31,0.029 61±0.005 362 and 0.022 30±0.001 94,respectively.All of them showed had high haplotype diversity and high nucleotide polymorphism.(4)The genetic distances were ranged from 0 to 0.020,0 to 0.024,0 to 0.027 and 0 to 0.023 within the population of M,P,MP and PM,respectively.The interspecific genetic distances were ranged from 0.024 to 0.180 among the four populations.The phylogenetic analysis showed that MP was closer to M,and PM was closer to P,showed obvious maternal effect.The results indicated that the selective breeding populations of M. anguillicaudatus and P. dabryanus had high nucleotide polymorphism and could be used as parents for further selective breeding,and then used for economic hybridization to breed new hybrid loach varieties with dominant characters.