Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 1480-1482Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02292.x
Keywords
Bengal tiger; cross-species amplification; dinucleotide repeats; Felidae; microsatellites; tetranucleotide repeats
Funding
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- University of Potsdam
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We describe 11 dinucleotide and three tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for the critically endangered Indian tiger, Panthera tigris tigris. All of them were polymorphic with four to nine alleles per locus and an observed heterozygosity between 0.13 and 1.0. All primers also amplify microsatellite loci in leopard, Panthera pardus, and 12 primer pairs yielded reproducible results in domestic cat, Felis catus. These new microsatellites specifically developed for Indian tiger - in combination with those already available - comprise a reasonable number of loci to genetically analyse wild and captive populations of this illustrative species and might allow for recognition of individual tigers.
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