Microsatellites for the gynogenetic Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa: Useful tools for detection of mutation rate, ploidy determination and overall genetic diversity

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-71

  Lampert, Kathrin P ^a   Lamatsch, Dunja K ^a,c   Schories, Susanne ^a   Hopf, Armin ^a   García De León, Francisco J ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clonal variability; Cross species amplification; Mixed species group; Poecilia

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLOIDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PLOIDIES; POECILIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA FORMOSA;

EID: 33745196251     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 00221333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02728973     Document Type: Article

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