New methods to identify conserved microsatellite loci and develop primer sets of high cross-species utility - as demonstrated for birds

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 475-494

  Dawson, Deborah A ^a   Horsburgh, Gavin J ^a   Küpper, Clemens ^a   Stewart, Ian R K ^a   Ball, Alexander D ^a   Durrant, Kate L ^a   Hansson, Bengt ^b   Bacon, Ida ^c   Bird, Susannah ^a   Klein, Ákos ^a   Krupa, Andrew P ^a   Lee, Jin Won ^a   Martín Gálvez, David ^a   Simeoni, Michelle ^a   Smith, Gemma ^a   Spurgin, Lewis G ^a   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AVES; Conserved; Cross species utility; Expressed sequence tag (EST); Microsatellite; Passerine

Indexed keywords

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77952671387     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02775.x     Document Type: Article

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