fa <span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Protein banding pattern of eight snakeheads &ndash; <em>Channa</em> species viz.,<em> Channa</em> <em>striatus,</em><em> Channa marulius, Channa punctatus,</em> <em>Channa</em><em> diplogramme, Channa bleheri</em>, <em>Channa</em><em> gachua, Channa stewartii </em>and<em> Channa aurantimaculata </em>collected from different regions of India were used to study the phylogenetic relationship among them. The banding pattern from muscle protein indicated a unique profile for each species and t</span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">he electrophoregrams showed similarities among the species studied. In the SDS-PAGE, a maximum of 12 protein bands were obtained for <em>C. gachua</em> followed by 11 for<em> C. diplogramme</em> and 10 for <em>C. marulius </em>whereas less number of bands were recorded for the remaining species. Molecular weight of the protein bands varied from 16 kDa - 232 kDa. </span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">UPGMA <ins cite="mailto:NP" datetime="2017-09-16T11:48">(Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean)</ins></span></span> dendrogram revealed that the phylogenetic relationship was very close among <em>C. aurantimaculata</em> and <em>C. bleheri </em>and also between <em>C. gachua </em>and <em>C. stewarti</em>. Snakehead, Phylogenetic relation, SDS- PAGE, Protein banding 1178 1186 http://jifro.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-641-3&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 M.A. Haniffa haniffacare@gmail.com 100319475328460023902 100319475328460023902 Yes P. Jeya Sheela 100319475328460023903 100319475328460023903 No M. James Milton 100319475328460023904 100319475328460023904 No K. Kavitha 100319475328460023905 100319475328460023905 No