TY - JOUR
T1 - Nine novel, polymorphic microsatellite markers for the study of threatened Caribbean acroporid corals
AU - Baums, I. B.
AU - Devlin-Durante, M. K.
AU - Brown, L.
AU - PinzÓn, J. H.
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Caribbean reef-building corals in the genus Acropora have been declining dramatically since the 1980s and are now listed as threatened. The study of their complex reproductive system (mixed asexual and sexual) and their population structure requires highly polymorphic nuclear genetic markers. Of eight previously developed microsatellite loci for A. palmata, only five behaved in a Mendelian fashion and only four reliably amplified the sister species, A. cervicornis. Here, nine novel microsatellite markers are presented that dramatically increase the power to distinguish between asexual and sexual reproductive events and may help to refine population boundaries and gene flow across their ranges.
AB - Caribbean reef-building corals in the genus Acropora have been declining dramatically since the 1980s and are now listed as threatened. The study of their complex reproductive system (mixed asexual and sexual) and their population structure requires highly polymorphic nuclear genetic markers. Of eight previously developed microsatellite loci for A. palmata, only five behaved in a Mendelian fashion and only four reliably amplified the sister species, A. cervicornis. Here, nine novel microsatellite markers are presented that dramatically increase the power to distinguish between asexual and sexual reproductive events and may help to refine population boundaries and gene flow across their ranges.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02581.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02581.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 21564860
AN - SCOPUS:67649861376
SN - 1755-098X
VL - 9
SP - 1155
EP - 1158
JO - Molecular Ecology Resources
JF - Molecular Ecology Resources
IS - 4
ER -