“A method of identifying tilapia, Nile tilapia and their hybrids”, invented by LI Jianlin, YU Juhua, etc. of FFRC, was authorized the National Invention Patent with the patent NO. ZL 201210384347.1

The invention provides a method for distinguishing among Aureus tilapia, Nile tilapia and their hybrids. With this method, the tilapia genomic DNA will be amplified using PCR through 1 pairs of specific primers, and based on the results of the PCR electrophoresis test, Aureus tilapia, Nile tilapia and their hybrids can be distinguished from each other.