Using next-generation DNA sequencing for rapid microsatellite discovery in Mexican leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylus tuberculosus)

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 807-810

  Blair, Christopher ^a,b   Jiménez Arcos, Victor H ^c   de la Cruz, Fausto R Méndez ^c   Murphy, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gecko; Genomics; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874356928     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-012-9649-y     Document Type: Article

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