Open AccessCharacterization of microsatellite loci in fulvous fruit bat Rousettus leschenaulti
Author(s) -
HUA P. Y.,
CHEN J. P.,
SUN M.,
LIANG B.,
ZHANG S. Y.,
WU D. H.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
molecular ecology notes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1471-8286
pISSN - 1471-8278
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01407.x
Subject(s) - microsatellite , biology , loss of heterozygosity , population , genetic diversity , genotype , allele , genetics , evolutionary biology , gene , demography , sociology
Rousettus leschenaulti is an abundant species in many countries of South‐East Asia, including south China. We isolated seven microsatellite loci in R. leschenaulti from genomic DNA enriched for CA repeats with the enriched library method. A total of 56 samples from a population in the Guangxi Province of China were tested with these microsatellite markers. The polymorphism ranged from seven to 16 alleles, and the observed heterozygosity was 84–94%. It is the first time microsatellite markers were characterized from R. leschenaulti , and these markers can be an important tool for analysing population structure and genotypic diversity.