Trinucleotide microsatellite loci and increased heterozygosity in cross- species applications in the social wasp, Polistes

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 273-279

  Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Peters, John M ^a   Barefield, Karen ^a   Solís, Carlos R ^a   Hughes, Colin R ^a,b   Queller, David C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; Trinucleotide repeats; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WASP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; HETEROZYGOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES ANNULARIS; POLISTES BELLICOSUS; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES DORSALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0031468935     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021849100346     Document Type: Article

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