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High‐throughput microsatellite isolation through 454 GS‐FLX Titanium pyrosequencing of enriched DNA libraries
Author(s) -
MALAUSA THIBAUT,
GILLES ANDRÉ,
MEGLÉCZ EMESE,
BLANQUART HÉLÈNE,
DUTHOY STÉPHANIE,
COSTEDOAT CAROLINE,
DUBUT VINCENT,
PECH NICOLAS,
CASTAGSERENO PHILIPPE,
DÉLYE CHRISTOPHE,
FEAU NICOLAS,
FREY PASCAL,
GAUTHIER PHILIPPE,
GUILLEMAUD THOMAS,
HAZARD LAURENT,
LE CORRE VALÉRIE,
LUNGESCARMANT BRIGITTE,
MALÉ PIERREJEAN G.,
FERREIRA STÉPHANIE,
MARTIN JEANFRANÇOIS
Publication year - 2011
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.1755-0998.2011.02992.x
Subject(s) - microsatellite , biology , pyrosequencing , multiplex , dna sequencing , genetics , evolutionary biology , computational biology , genomic dna , dna , gene , allele
Microsatellites (or SSRs: simple sequence repeats) are among the most frequently used DNA markers in many areas of research. The use of microsatellite markers is limited by the difficulties involved in their de novo isolation from species for which no genomic resources are available. We describe here a high‐throughput method for isolating microsatellite markers based on coupling multiplex microsatellite enrichment and next‐generation sequencing on 454 GS‐FLX Titanium platforms. The procedure was calibrated on a model species ( Apis mellifera ) and validated on 13 other species from various taxonomic groups (animals, plants and fungi), including taxa for which severe difficulties were previously encountered using traditional methods. We obtained from 11 497 to 34 483 sequences depending on the species and the number of detected microsatellite loci ranged from 199 to 5791. We thus demonstrated that this procedure can be readily and successfully applied to a large variety of taxonomic groups, at much lower cost than would have been possible with traditional protocols. This method is expected to speed up the acquisition of high‐quality genetic markers for nonmodel organisms.