Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 142-149Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02673.x
Keywords
Captive bred; cross-species; illegal trade; microsatellite; parentage; parrot
Funding
- Darwin Initiative Grant (DEFRA, UK)
- NERC [NBAF010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NBAF010001] Funding Source: researchfish
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Twenty-two polymorphic microsatellite loci were characterized in the Cape parrot, Poicephalus robustus. Nineteen loci were newly isolated from two Cape parrot genomic libraries, and three loci isolated from other parrot species. Loci were characterized in 40 unrelated captive Cape parrots held by aviculturalists. The loci displayed between two and 24 alleles, with the observed heterozygosities ranging between 0.10 and 0.94. This locus set is suitable for identifying clarifying parentage (parentage exclusion probabilities of P-E1 = 0.0004 and P-E2 = 0.000001). Candidate parents for any Cape parrot individual can now be genotyped to distinguish between individuals, which are truly captive bred and those suspected of being wild-caught birds. Cross-species analysis found up to 31 loci to be polymorphic across 24 additional parrot species tested.
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