Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 989-992Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9669-z
Keywords
Arctocephalus gazella; Microsatellite; Cross-species amplification; Stock structure; Assignment testing; Heterozygosity-fitness correlation (HFC); Pinniped
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- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Antarctic Funding Initiative (AFI)
- Isaac Newton Trust
- Cambridge University's Newton and Balfour funds
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Nine dinucelotide microsatellite loci were developed in the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella. Each locus possessed between 4 and 9 alleles in a sample of twenty individuals sampled from Bird Island, South Georgia, and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.52 to 0.84. All but one of the loci conformed to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and no evidence was found for genotypic disequilibrium. Additionally, all of the loci successfully cross-amplified in the South American fur seal Arctocephalus australis, the New Zealand fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri and the Steller's sea lion Eumetopias jubatus, and six also yielded products in the more distantly related harbour seal Phoca vitulina and walrus Odobenus rosmarus. These loci should prove useful for studies of the population genetics of Antarctic fur seals and other important otariid species.
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