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PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci from the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus (Perciformes, Scombridae)
Author(s) -
YAGISHITA N.,
KOBAYASHI T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
molecular ecology resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.96
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1755-0998
pISSN - 1755-098X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01935.x
Subject(s) - biology , scombridae , scomber , mackerel , microsatellite , perciformes , locus (genetics) , fishery , zoology , loss of heterozygosity , allele , genetics , tuna , gene , fish <actinopterygii>
The stock abundance of the chub mackerel Scomber japonicus — a very important species for fisheries, particularly in Japan — in the Pacific Ocean off Japan has remained at a low level. For studying the population genetics of the chub mackerel, we isolated nine polymorphic microsatellite loci (12–31 alleles/locus; expected heterozygosity, 0.762–0.983) from this species. Cross‐species amplification indicated that eight of the nine microsatellite loci in the blue mackerel S. australasicus were polymorphic and functional.