Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Liporrhopalum tentacularis Grandi, the pollinator fig wasp of Ficus montana Blume

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 569-571

  Zavodna, M ^a,b,c   Arens, P ^a   Vosman, B ^a   Van Dijk, P J ^b   Van Damme, J M M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agaonidae; Breeding system; Ficus; Habitat fragmentation; Krakatau islands; Simple sequence repeat (SSR)

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENE LIBRARY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INDONESIA; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TETRANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGAONIDAE; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LIPORRHOPALUM; LIPORRHOPALUM TENTACULARIS; TRANSPOSONS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036898774     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2002.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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