PCR primers for harbour seal (Phoca vitulina concolour) microsatellites amplify polymorphic loci in other pinniped species

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 161-163

  Coltman, D W ^a   Bowen, W Don ^b   Wright, J M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Harbour seal; Microsatellite; PCR; Phoca vitulina concolour; Phocidae; Pinniped

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOCA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEALS, EARLESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030072723     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00303.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Allen PJ, Amos W, Pomeroy PP, Twiss SD (in press) Microsatellite variation in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) shows evidence of genetic differentiation between two British breeding colonies. Molecular Ecology, in press.
2. Bruford MW, Wayne RK (1993) Microsatellites and their application to population genetic studies. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development, 3, 939-943.
3. Coltman DW, Wright JM (1994) Can SINEs: a family of tRNA-derived retroposons specific to the superfamily Canoidea. Nucleic Acids Research, 22, 2726-2730.
4. Levinson G, Gutman GA (1987) Slipped-strand mispairing: a major mechanism for DNA sequence evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 4, 203-221.
5. McConnell SK, O'Reilly P, Hamilton L, Wright JM, Bentzen P (1996) Polymorphic microsatellite loci from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): genetic differentiation of North Atlantic and European populations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, in press.
6. Moore SS, Sargeant LL, King TJ, Mattick JS, Georges M, Hetzel DJS (1991) The conservation of dinucleotide microsatellites among mammalian genomes allows the use of heterologous PCR primer pairs in closely related species. Genomics, 10, 654-660.
7. Queller DC, Strassmann JE, Hughes CR (1993) Microsatellites and kinship. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 285-289.
8. Roy MS, Geffen E, Smith D, Ostrander EA & Wayne RK (1994) Patterns of differentiation and hybridization in North American wolflike canids, revealed by analysis of microsatellite loci. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 11, 553-570.
9. Schlötterer C, Amos B & Tautz D (1991) Conservation of polymorphic simple sequence loci in cetacean species. Nature, 354, 63-65.
10. Tautz D (1989) Hypervariability of simple sequences as a general source for polymorphic DNA markers. Nucleic Acids Research, 17, 6463-6471.
11. Tautz D, Renz M (1984) Simple sequences are ubiquitous repetitive elements of eukaryote genomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 12, 4127-4138.
12. Wright JM, Bentzen P (1994) Microsatellites: genetic markers of the future. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 4, 384-388.