Abstract
The intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis) is a widespread species in Southeast Asia. We developed 19 novel microsatellite loci from an enriched genomic library of the bat, and tested their polymorphism using a single population from Guangdong province, southern China. The number of alleles ranged from 3 to 15 per locus with the expected and observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.397 to 0.920 and 0.280-0.926, respectively. Three markers significantly deviated from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations after Bonferroni correction and no linkage disequilibrium was detected in any of loci. These microsatellite loci will be useful in studying the phylogeography of this species.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 709-711 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Conservation Genetics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2009 |
Keywords
- Microsatellite
- Phylogeography
- Rhinolophus affinis