Fourteen microsatellite loci cross-amplify in all five kiwi species (Apteryx spp.) and reveal extremely low genetic variation in little spotted kiwi (A. owenii)

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages 333-336

  Ramstad, Kristina M ^a   Pfunder, Monika ^b   Robertson, Hugh A ^c   Colbourne, Rogan M ^c   Allendorf, Fred W ^a,d   Daugherty, Charles H ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b ECOGENICS GMBH   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apteryx; Conservation; Cross species amplification; Kiwi; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

APTERYX; APTERYX OWENII;

EID: 84859998665     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-010-9233-2     Document Type: Article

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