Development of twelve microsatellite loci in the corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)

We developed 12 microsatellite loci primers in the corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops). All markers were obtained from partial genomic DNA libraries enriched for tetranucleotide repeats and characterized in 32 unrelated individuals from one putative population. The number of alleles ranged from 5 to 18, with an average of 8.6 per locus, and the observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.464 to 0.969 (average 0.697). Cross-amplification in two closely related commercially exploited species, the ballian wrasse (Labrus bergylta) and the goldsinny wrasse (Ctenolabrus rupestris), successfully resolved four loci of which two were polymorphic and two where monomorphic.