New polymorphic microsatellite markers of the endangered meadow viper (Vipera ursinii) identified by 454 high-throughput sequencing: When innovation meets conservation

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 589-592

  Metzger, César ^a,b   Ferchaud, Anne Laure ^c   Geiser, Céline ^a   Ursenbacher, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

454 sequencing; Conservation genomics; Microsatellite; Vipera ursinii

Indexed keywords

VIPERA; VIPERA URSINII; VIPERINAE;

EID: 84859838042     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-011-9411-x     Document Type: Article

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