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Some of the scorpion species of medical importance have a similar morphology to species with low toxicity. To establish diagnostic tools for surveying scorpions, the current study was conducted to generate three mitochondrial markers, Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI gene), 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA for six species of medically important Iranian scorpions: <jats:italic>Androctonus crassicauda<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Hottentotta saulcyi<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mesobuthus caucasicus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>M. eupeus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Odontobuthus doriae<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Scorpio maurus<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Phylogenetic analyses of the obtained sequences corroborated the morphological identification. For the first time, 12S rDNA sequences are reported from <jats:italic>Androctonus crassicauda, Hottentotta saulcyi<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mesobuthus caucasicus<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>M. eupeus<\/jats:italic> and also the 16S rDNA sequence from <jats:italic>Hottentotta saulcyi<\/jats:italic>. We conclude that the mitochondrial markers are useful for species determination among these medically important species of scorpions.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13104-021-05449-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,1]],"date-time":"2021-02-01T17:22:21Z","timestamp":1612200141000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Molecular analysis of the mitochondrial markers COI, 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA for six species of Iranian scorpions"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Parisa","family":"Soltan-Alinejad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Javad","family":"Rafinejad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Farrokh","family":"Dabiri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Piero","family":"Onorati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Olle","family":"Terenius","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2359-8610","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali Reza","family":"Chavshin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"5449_CR1","unstructured":"Stockmann RY, Flay E, Nicholas coaut tr Roland Stockmann EY: Scorpions of the World; 2010."},{"issue":"2","key":"5449_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"71","DOI":"10.1016\/j.actatropica.2008.05.021","volume":"107","author":"J-P Chippaux","year":"2008","unstructured":"Chippaux J-P, Goyffon M. 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