Development and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the raccoon tick (Ixodes texanus)

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 296-298

  Dharmarajan, Guha ^a   Fike, Jennifer A ^a   Beasley, James C ^a   Rhodes Jr , Olin E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acari; Ixodes texanus; Microsatellite; Parasite; Raccoon tick

Indexed keywords

ACARI; IXODES; IXODES TEXANUS; IXODIDA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 58949097265     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02314.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Beheler AS, Fike JA, Murfitt LM, Rhodes OE Jr., Serfass TS (2004) Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) and amplification in related mustelids. Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, 56 58.
2. Demaree HA Jr. (1986) Ticks of Indiana. Pittman-Robertson Bulletin, 16, 1 178.
3. DeWoody AJ, Schupp J, Kenefic L et al 2004) Universal method for producing ROX-labeled size standards suitable for automated genotyping. BioTechniques, 37, 348 350.
4. Lewis PO, Zaykin D (2001) Genetic Data Analysis: Computer Program for the Analysis of Allelic Data. Available from URL : http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn. edu/people/plewis/software.php.
5. Nuttall GHF, Warburton C (1911) Ticks. A Monograph of the Ixodoidae. Part II. Ixodidae. Cambridge University Press, London.
6. van Oosterhout C, Hutchinson WF, Wills DP et al 2004) micro-checker: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data. Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, 535 538.
7. Rauch G, Kalbe M, Reusch TBH (2005) How a complex life cycle can improve a parasite's sex life. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18, 1069 1075.
8. Raymond M, Rousset F (1995) genepop (version 1.2): population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. Journal of Heredity, 86, 248 249.
9. Rozen S, Skaletsky HJ (2000) primer 3. Available from URL: http://primer3.sourceforge.net.