High-utility conserved avian microsatellite markers enable parentage and population studies across a wide range of species

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dawson, Deborah A ^a   Ball, Alexander D ^a,d   Spurgin, Lewis G ^a,b   Martín Gálvez, David ^a,e   Stewart, Ian R K ^c   Horsburgh, Gavin J ^a   Potter, Jonathan ^a   Molina Morales, Mercedes ^a,f   Bicknell, Anthony W J ^a,g   Preston, Stephanie A J ^a   Ekblom, Robert ^a,h   Slate, Jon ^a   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 10; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 13; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 15; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 17; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 18; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 20; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 21; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 23; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 24; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 3; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 4; CONSERVED AVIAN MICROSATELLITE MARKER 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SPECIES GENE AMPLIFICATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; FINCHES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84874941860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-176     Document Type: Article

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