Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 2033-2036Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9887-z
Keywords
Amphibian; Color variation; Phenotypic polymorphism; Population genetics
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- UC Davis Center for Population Biology
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- East Carolina University
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Members of the poison-dart frog genus Oophaga, including the strawberry poison-dart frog (O. pumilio) display among the most striking examples of color polymorphism of any amphibians. We developed twelve novel microsatellite markers with di-, tri-, and tetra-nucleotide repeats for this genus. These loci are highly polymorphic with between 2 and 29 alleles (average = 14.7) and high heterozygosity (H (O) = 0.704). These highly polymorphic markers should be useful for resolving fine-scale genetic differences between the different color morphs of these highly variable species, for investigations into the ecological importance of this variation, and for determining the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on population persistence in these species.
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