Microsatellite markers for the study of cetacean populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 151-156

  Valsecchi, E ^a   Amos, W ^a  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cetacean; Conservation; Microsatellites; Population markers; STR; Whales

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CETACEA; CLASSIFICATION; DOLPHIN; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CETACEA; DNA PRIMERS; DOLPHINS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA;

EID: 0030088080     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00301.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Amos W, Hoelzel AR (1991) Long-term preservation of whale skin for DNA analysis. In: Genetic Ecology of Whales and Dolphins (ed. Hoelzel AR), Special Issue 13, pp. 99-103. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge.
2. Amos W, Whitehead H, Ferrari MJ et al. (1992) Restrictable DNA from cetacean sloughed skin: its potential for use in population analysis. Marine Mammal Science, 8, 275-283.
3. Bain D (1990) Examining the validity of inferences drawn from photo-identification data, with special reference to studies of the killer whale (Orcinus area) in British Columbia. In: Individual Recognition of Cetaceans: Use of Photo-Identification and Other Technique to Estimate Population Parameters (ed. Hammond PS, SA Mizroch and GP Donovan), Special Issue 12, pp. 93-100. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge.
4. Balcomb K, Boran J, Heimlich S (1982) Killer whales, in Greater Puget Sound. Reports international Whaling Commission, 32, 681-685.
5. Bruford MW, Wayne RK (1993) Microsatellites and their application to population genetic studies. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development, 3, 939-943.
6. Carlson CA, Mayo CA (1990) Changes in the ventral fluke pattern of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), and its effect on matching: evaluation of its significance to photo-identification research. In: Individual Recognition of Cetaceans: Use of Photo-Identification and Other Technique to Estimate Population Parameters (ed. Hammond PS, SA Mizroch and GP Donovan), Special Issue 12, pp. 105-111. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge.
7. Conrad J, Bjorndal T (1993) On the resumption of commercial whaling - The case of the minke whale in the NortEast Atlantic. Arctic, 46, 164-171.
8. FitzSimmons NN, Moritz C, Moore SS (1995) Conservation and dynamics of microsatellite loci over 300 million years of marine turtle evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 12, 432-140.
9. Hauge XY, Litt M (1993) A study of the origin of 'shadow bands' seen when typing dinucleotide repeat polymorphisms by the PCR. Human Molecular Genetics, 2, 441-445.
10. Katona SK, Baxter B, Brazier O et al (1979) Identification of hump-back whales by fluke photographs. In: Behavior of Marine Mammals, Vol. 3, Cetaceans (ed. Winn H, Olla BL), pp. Plenum Press, New York.
11. Klinowska M (1991) Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World. The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, Cambridge.
12. Koorey DJ, Bishop GA, McCaughan GW (1993) Allele non-amplification: a source of confusion in linkage studies employing microsatellite polymorphisms. Human Molecular Genetics, 2, 289-291.
13. Moore SS, Sargeant LL, King TJ et al. (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.
14. Palsbøll PJ, Larsen F, Hansen ES (1991) Sampling of skin biopsies from free-ranging large cetaceans in West Greenland: Development of new biopsy tips and bolt designs. In: Genetic Ecology of Whales and Dolphins (ed. Hoelzel AR), Special Issue 13, pp. 71-79. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge.
15. Pépin L, Amigues Y, Lépingle A et al. (1994) Sequence conservation of microsatellites between Bos taurus (cattle), Capra hircus (goat) and related species. Examples of use in parentage testing and phylogeny analysis. Heredity, 74, 53-61.
16. Queller DC, Strassmann JE, Hughes CR (1993) Microsatellites and kinship. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 285-289.
17. Rassmann K, Schlotterer C, Tautz D (1991) Isolation of simple-sequence loci for use in polymerase chain reaction-based DNA fingerprinting. Electrophoresis, 12, 113-118.
18. Rychlik W, Rhoades RE (1989) A computer-program for choosing optimal oligonucleotides for filter hybridisation, sequencing and in vitro amplification of DNA. Nucleic Acids Research, 17, 8543-8551.
19. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Clonirg: a Laboratory Manual, 2nd edn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York.
20. Schlötterer C, Amos W, Tautz D (1991) Conservation of polymorphic simple sequence loci in cetacean species. Nature, 354, 63-65.
21. Stern SJ, Dorsey EM, Case VL (1990) Photographic catchability of individually identified minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) of the San Juan Islands, Washington and the Monteray Bay Area, California. In: Individual Recognition of Cetaceans: Use of Photo-Identification and Other Technique to Estimate Population Parameters (ed. Hammond PS, SA Mizroch and GP Donovan), Special Issue 12, pp. 127-133. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge.
22. Yablokov AV (1994) Validity of whaling data. Nature, 367, 108.