Development and characterisation of 20 microsatellite loci isolated from the large bent-wing bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) and their cross-taxa utility in the family Miniopteridae

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 675-685

  Wood, Rebecca ^a   Weyeneth, Nicole ^b   Appleton, Belinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bats; Cross species amplification; Microsatellites; Miniopteridae; Miniopterus; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA PRIMERS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHIROPTERA; MINIOPTERUS; MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSII;

EID: 79955665927     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.02994.x     Document Type: Article

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