Characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) and their variability in related species

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 150-152

  Soro, Antonella ^a,b   Paxton, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dinucleotide; Social evolution; SSR; STR; Trinucleotide

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HALICTUS RUBICUNDUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 58949093234     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02416.x     Document Type: Article

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