Title
Isolation And Characterization Of Twelve Microsatellite Loci For Rockfish (sebastes)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-1999
Publication Title
Marine Biotechnology
Department
Biology
Abstract
We describe the first microsatellites for rockfishes in the diverse genus Sebastes. Clones containing microsatellites were isolated from the genomic library of a quillback rockfish, Sebastes maliger. Twelve microsatellites are characterized; six of these are polymorphic in quillback rockfish, and eight are polymorphic in at least one rockfish species on which they were tested. The number of alleles per variable locus ranged from 4 to 15 and averaged 6.8. The expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.38 to 0.79 and averaged 0.60 in these loci. These loci should prove valuable in studies examining species identification, population genetics, hybridization, paternity, kinship, and microsatellite evolution.
Volume
1
Issue
3
pp.
311-315
ISSN
1436-2228
Citation
Wimberger, Peter A., Jenni Burr, Andy Gray, Andres Lopez, et al. 1999. "Isolation and characterization of twelve microsatellite loci for rockfish (Sebastes)." Marine Biotechnology 1(3): 311-315.