Calpastatin plays an important role in muscle growth and meat quality formation. To investigate the molecular basis of the meat quality of hybrid F1 from Ctenopharyngodon idellus (♀) × Squaliobarbus curriculus (♂), the full-length cDNAs of CiCAST, ScCAST and their hybrid F1 CAST were cloned by using RACE technology, and structure differences were analyzed by bioinformatics tools in this study. The results showed that the full-length cDNA of Ci-CAST, ScCAST and hybrid F1 CAST were 3036, 3165 and 3086 bp in length and encoded 901, 893 and 904 ...