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Schultz, TF,Hsing, PY,Eng, A,Zelnio, KA,Thaler, AD,Carlsson, J,Van Dover, CL;
2011
January
Conservation Genetics
Characterization of 18 polymorphic microsatellite loci from Bathymodiolus manusensis (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents
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Mytilid mussel Back-arc basin Chemoautotrophic Bathymodiolus Hydrothermal vent Microsatellite GENUS BATHYMODIOLUS SOFTWARE MUSSELS MARKERS
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Species in the genus Bathymodiolus are mytilid mussels found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Next-generation sequencing techniques were employed to identify eighteen unlinked polymorphic microsatellite loci for Bathymodiolus manusensis from Manus Basin in the western Pacific. Allele frequencies for eight loci conform to Hardy-Weinberg expectations and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.04 to 0.90 (mean H-O = 0.45, SD = 0.25). Ten of eighteen loci cross-amplified in Bathymodiolus heckerae from Atlantic seeps. Microsatellites developed for Bathymodiolus manusensis are being deployed to study connectivity among populations of this species colonizing geographically discrete back-arc basin vent systems.
DOI 10.1007/s12686-010-9272-8
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