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KEYNOTE PAPER Keynote Paper 5 GENETIC MARKER FOR HARUAN Channa striatus Abdul Manan Mat Jais1, Mohamad Hafiz Abdul Rahim1, Rozila Alias2 and Norwati Muhammad3 1 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 4340 UPM Serdang, Selangor 2 Department of Food Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Universiti Industri Selangor (UNISEL), Jalan Zirkon, Seksyen 7, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor 3 Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong, Selangor Darul Ehsan Abstract Malay Traditional Medicine is not well established as compared to the Chinese, Indian and other civilizations, including those of the Islamic Medicine. Nevertheless, local knowledge and practices is a force behind the recent active development in natural products and biotechnology R & D. These ethno-pharmacology are certainly the basis of Drug Discovery, and wealth creation in the now Era of the Biology or the Green Gold. One of the more prominent and well accepted throughout the country, among various communities and tribes, is Haruan Channa striatus. This tropical freshwater fish is an indigenous to Malaysia, air breather and a carnivorous species. The fish is consumed widely as source of good protein and to induce wound healing, especially among those after giving birth. Based on RFLP, there are three main stocks of the species namely Kelantan, Penang and Johor discovered in Peninsula Malaysia. Haruan as a freshwater species is becoming very important in local aquaculture industry not just as a commodity, but it is more importantly as high quality source for drug discovery. Thus, the economic status and the medicinal potential of the species is making us to establish the Genetic Maker for future pharmaceutical industry and other business interests Proceedings of the 8th Malaysia Congress on Genetics, 4-6 August 2009, Genting Highlands, Malaysia 29