Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 383-385Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02463.x
Keywords
hog-nosed skunk; hooded skunk; Mephitis mephitis; microsatellite primers; spotted skunk; striped skunk
Funding
- NSF
- Smithsonian Institution
- USDA/APHIS-Wildlife Services
- National Wildlife Research Center
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We report 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci primers developed for striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), a widespread mesocarnivore in North America. Numbers of alleles in these loci ranged from seven to 14 and the observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.76 to 1.0. These primers will be useful for studying population dynamics of skunks where rabies is endemic and will be useful to estimate genetic relatedness among females sharing winter dens. Most of these primers amplify across species within the Mephitidae.
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