Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 999-1001Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02536.x
Keywords
fitness; microsatellite markers; Octodon degus; parentage
Funding
- FONDECYT [1020861, 1060499]
- NSF [0553910]
- Louisiana Board of Regents [LINK-2006, LEQSF 2007-09-RD-A-39]
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Quantifying genetic kinship and parentage is critical to understanding the adaptive consequences of sociality. To measure fitness in a species with variable group structure, we isolated 14 microsatellite loci from Octodon degus, a semi-fossorial rodent endemic to Chile. The number of alleles per locus ranged from four to 14. Thirteen loci were in Hardy-Weinberg proportions, with values of observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.550 to 0.950. These markers provide the basis for future studies of the direct fitness consequences of sociality in O. degus.
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