Identification of highly polymorphic microsatellites in the rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta by cross-species amplification

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 157-159

  Kayser, M ^a   Ritter, H ^a   Bercovitch, F ^b   Mrug, M ^c   Roewer, L ^a   Nurnberg P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Macaca mulatta; Microsatellites; Primates; Rhesus monkey; STR polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MACACA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0030087705     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00302.x     Document Type: Article

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