Swathi, A.
Shekhar, M. S.
Katneni, Vinaya Kumar
Vijayan, K. K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (CRP-GENOMICS)
Article History
Received: 20 April 2018
Accepted: 8 July 2018
First Online: 14 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
: The fishes used in the experiment during the blood collection, were anesthetized with 2-Phenoxyethanol (Sigma-Aldrich, Co., St. Louis, MO, USA). The blood was collected using 5-ml syringe containing 0.01 M phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) from the caudal vein of the fish. The permission was obtained from the Institute Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) of ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai, India to carry out the experiments in fishes. The standard operating procedures in the experiment were followed which were set for the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee by the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change, Government of India.