Polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the southern dusky salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus)

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-625

  Croshaw, Dean A ^a,b   Glenn, Travis C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Desmognathus auriculatus; Dusky salamanders; Microsatellites; Polymerase chain reaction primers; Short tandem repeat; Simple sequence repeat

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS AURICULATUS; DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS; REPTILIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0344668603     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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