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- Title
Microsatellite Loci from Lanyu Scops Owl (Otus elegans botelensis) and their Cross-Species Application in Four Species of Strigidae.
- Authors
Yu-Cheng Hsu; Shou-Hsien Li; Yao-Sung Lin; Lucia Severinghaus
- Abstract
We developed six new microsatellite markers containing tetranucleotide repeat motifs (GATA/CTAT) for Lanyu scops owl (Otus elegans botelensis) from an enriched partial library. All these loci are polymorphic and conform to Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. We cross-species tested these and 12 other microsatellite primer pairs previously developed from O. elegans on four other species of owls (O. lettia, O. spilocephalus, O. scops, and Ninox scutulata). Results showed that the degree of polymorphism decreased with increasing phylogenetic distance to O. elegans. Most loci (66.7, 83.3, and 100%) were polymorphic in the three Otus owls but only five (27.8%) were polymorphic in N. scutulata. These microsatellites should be very useful genetic markers in studying the mating system, population genetics, and conservation of other little studied Old World Otus owls.
- Subjects
OWLS; MICROSATELLITE repeats; ANIMAL population genetics; STRIGIDAE
- Publication
Conservation Genetics, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 1, p161
- ISSN
1566-0621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10592-005-5477-x