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Twelve polymorphic microsatellites in Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense
Author(s) -
FENG J. B.,
LI J. L.
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.1755-0998.2008.02129.x
Subject(s) - biology , prawn , loss of heterozygosity , overfishing , microsatellite , locus (genetics) , genetic diversity , zoology , endangered species , fishery , allele , ecology , genetics , fishing , population , gene , habitat , demography , sociology
Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponens e, is a commercially important freshwater prawn species in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Due to overfishing for food, the wild stocks M. nipponens e are endangered. Twenty microsatellite loci were isolated from the M. nipponens e. Twelve of these loci were polymorphic (seven to 16 alleles per locus), with expected heterozygosity ranging from 0.68 to 0.86 ( n = 48). These polymorphic loci provide a valuable tool for assessing genetic diversity of wild and cultured populations.