Characterization of thirty two microsatellite loci for three Atlanto-Mediterranean echinoderm species

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 749-753

  Garcia Cisneros, Alex ^a   Valero Jiménez, Claudio ^a,b   Palacín, Creu ^a,c   Pérez Portela, Rocío ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Biodiversity Research Institute (IrBIO)   (Spain)

^d CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonality; Conservation; Inbreeding; Pyrosequencing; Sea urchin; Starfish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880995297     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-013-9897-5     Document Type: Article

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