Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 553-560Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-016-0582-3
Keywords
Hybridization; Ion Torrent; KASP genotyping; Transcriptome; Triturus
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- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Global Fellowship (EU) [655487]
- NWO [824.14.014]
- NSF [DEB 1239961]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1257648] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Genetic admixture between endangered native and non-native invasive species poses a complex conservation problem. Decision makers often need to quickly screen large numbers of individuals and distinguish natives from morphologically similar invading species and their genetically admixed offspring. We describe a protocol using the fast and economical Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) technology for genotyping on a large scale. We apply this protocol to a case study of hybridization between a native and an invasive crested newt species. Using previously published data, we designed a panel of ten nuclear and one mitochondrial diagnostic SNP markers. We observed only minor differences between KASP and next-generation sequencing data previously produced with the Ion Torrent platform. We briefly discuss practical considerations for tackling the insidious conservation problem of genetic admixture between native and invasive species. The KASP genotyping protocol facilitates policy decision making for the crested newt case and is generally applicable to invasive hybridization with endangered taxa.
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