Highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in the facultatively eusocial hover wasp, Liostenogaster flavolineata and cross-species amplification

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 229-231

  Sumner, S ^a,b   Field, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Enriched library; Eusociality; Liostenogaster; Microsatellite; Parischnogaster; Wasps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008016921     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8278.2001.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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