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Polymorphic microsatellite markers in the loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus isolated from a library enriched for CA repeats
Author(s) -
MUNDY N. I.,
WOODRUFF D. S.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
molecular ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.619
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1365-294X
pISSN - 0962-1083
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-294x.1996.tb00377.x
Subject(s) - shrike , microsatellite , biology , library science , zoology , genetics , ecology , computer science , allele , gene , habitat
Many species of true shrike (family Laniidae) are in decline world-wide, but the causes of the decline are in most cases poorly understood (Yosef & Lohrer 1995). Populations of at least two subspecies of the North American loggerhead shrike Lanius hfovicianus have suffered severe reductions this century: the San Clemente loggerhead shrike, L. 1. mearnsi, an endangered Californian Channel Island endemic, and L. 1. migrans on the east coast (Yosef & Lohrer 1995). We have developed microsatellite primers for the loggerhead shrike in order to study its mating system, population structure, migration patterns and genetic erosion of isolated populations. Such knowledge will be important in designing effective management programmes, and most of these primers should be immediately applicable to similar questions in other shrike species.