Twelve microsatellite markers in the invasive tunicate, Didemnum vexillum, isolated from low genome coverage 454 pyrosequencing reads

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-81

  Abbott, Cathryn L ^a   Ebert, Daniel ^b   Tabata, Amy ^a   Therriault, Thomas W ^a  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ascidiacea; Didemnidae; Microsatellite isolation; Next generation sequencing; SSRs; Tunicate invasions

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; DIDEMNIDAE; DIDEMNUM; UROCHORDATA; VEXILLUM;

EID: 79953131579     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-010-9294-2     Document Type: Article

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