Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 989-993Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02549.x
Keywords
Gorgonia ventalina; gorgonian coral; microsatellite; population genetics; Symbiodinium; zooxanthellae
Funding
- National Science Foundation [OCE-0326705, OCE-0424996]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Theresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Here we report primers targeting 10 microsatellite loci of dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium (clade B1/B184) symbiotic with the Caribbean sea fan coral, Gorgonia ventalina. Primers were tested on 12 Symbiodinium B1/B184 cultures, as well as 40 genomic DNA extracts of G. ventalina tissue samples. All loci were polymorphic with allelic richness ranging from 4-16. Gene diversity ranged from 0.15 to 0.91. These primers provide powerful tools for examining the fine-scale population structure and dynamics of Symbiodinium within a single host species.
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