Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 159-162Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-010-9313-3
Keywords
Hybrid zone; Microsatellite primers; Phylogeography; Powder blue tang; Reef fishes; Simple sequence repeats; White cheek surgeonfish
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- National Science Foundation [OCE-0453167, OCE-0929031]
- NOAA [2005-008/66882]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Pritzker Foundation
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Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed for sister surgeonfish species: the white cheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans) which occurs primarily in the Pacific Ocean, and the powder blue tang (Acanthurus leucosternon) in the Indian Ocean. All loci were scored for widely separated collections (A. nigricans, N = 30, French Polynesia; A. leucosternon, N = 27, Republic of Seychelles; hybrids, N = 17, Cocos/Keeling Island, eastern Indian Ocean). For A. nigricans, A. leucosternon, and hybrids, respectively, the mean number of alleles per locus is A = 17.80, A = 16.60, and A = 14.60, while observed heterozygosity ranges from H-O = 0.78-1.00, H-O = 0.740.96, and H-O = 0.69-1.00. With the exception of locus Ahy54, all loci conformed to Hardy-Weinberg expectations, most loci were in linkage equilibrium, and there was little evidence for confounding null alleles. These markers will be used to resolve range-wide population structure and patterns of hybridization.
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