Rapid development of microsatellite markers for the critically endangered Saiga (Saiga tatarica) using Illumina® Miseq next generation sequencing technology

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 159-162

  Nowak, Carsten ^a,b   Zuther, Steffen ^c   Leontyev, Sergey V ^c   Geismar, Jutta ^a,b  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c Office 406   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Antelopes; Antilopinae; Kazakhstan; Next generation sequencing; Short tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

ANTILOPINAE; SAIGA; SAIGA TATARICA;

EID: 84905985740     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-013-0033-3     Document Type: Letter

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