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- Title
Tetranucleotide markers from the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and their cross-amplification in other marine turtle species.
- Authors
Shamblin, Brian M.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Dodd, Mark G.; Bagley, Dean A.; Ehrhart, Llewellyn M.; Dutton, Peter H.; Frey, Amy; Nairn, Campbell J.
- Abstract
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is a federally threatened species and listed as endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify 11 novel tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the loggerhead sea turtle. We tested primers using samples from 22 females that nested at Melbourne Beach, Florida (USA). Primer pairs yielded an average of 11.2 alleles per locus (range of 4-24), an average observed heterozygosity of 0.83 (range 0.59-0.96), and an average polymorphic information content of 0.80 (range 0.62-0.94). We also demonstrate the utility of these primers, in addition to primers for 15 loci previously described, for amplifying microsatellite loci in four additional species representing the two extant marine turtle families: olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea).
- Subjects
SEA turtles; CROSS-species amplification; POLYMERASE chain reaction; MICROSATELLITE repeats; LOCUS (Genetics); IUCN -- World Conservation Union; WILDLIFE conservation
- Publication
Conservation Genetics, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 3, p577
- ISSN
1566-0621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10592-008-9573-6