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Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci from Octodon degus
Author(s) -
QUAN Y. F.,
MACMANES M. D.,
EBENSPERGER L. A.,
LACEY E. A.,
HAYES L. D.
Publication year - 2009
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.1755-0998.2009.02536.x
Subject(s) - biology , fossorial , locus (genetics) , microsatellite , sociality , loss of heterozygosity , evolutionary biology , allele , genetics , isolation by distance , zoology , gene
Quantifying genetic kinship and parentage is critical to understanding the adaptive consequences of sociality. To measure fitness in a species with variable group structure, we isolated 14 microsatellite loci from Octodon degus , a semi‐fossorial rodent endemic to Chile. The number of alleles per locus ranged from four to 14. Thirteen loci were in Hardy–Weinberg proportions, with values of observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.550 to 0.950. These markers provide the basis for future studies of the direct fitness consequences of sociality in O. degus .