Premium
Characterization of 38 microsatellite loci in the European blackbird, Turdus merula (Turdidae, AVES)
Author(s) -
SIMEONI MICHELLE,
DAWSON DEBORAH A.,
GENTLE LOUISE K.,
COIFFAIT LISETTE,
WOLFF KIRSTEN,
EVANS KARL L.,
GASTON KEVIN J.,
HATCHWELL BEN J.
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.1755-0998.2009.02708.x
Subject(s) - biology , taeniopygia , zebra finch , microsatellite , passerine , locus (genetics) , genetics , loss of heterozygosity , allele , zoology , population , evolutionary biology , gene , demography , neuroscience , sociology
We characterized 38 microsatellite loci in the European blackbird, Turdus merula . Thirty‐seven loci were identified by testing 242 loci that had been originally isolated in other avian species. One additional locus was isolated from a European blackbird genomic library. All loci were characterized in 20–29 blackbirds from a population in the Czech Republic and displayed between two and 16 alleles, with observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.04 to 1.00. Thirty‐seven loci could be assigned a chromosome location in the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata ) genome based on sequence homology.