Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Few population genetics studies have been carried out on major locust species. In particular, an understanding of the population genetic structure of the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, is lacking. We isolated and characterized eight polymorphic microsatellite loci in C. terminifera, and described experimental conditions for polymerase chain reaction multiplexing and genotyping these loci. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 11 to 29 and the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.797 to 0.977. One locus was found to be X-linked. Results of cross-taxon amplification tests are reported in four species of the Oedipodinae subfamily.

published proceedings

  • Mol Ecol Resour

author list (cited authors)

  • Chapuis, M., Popple, J., Simpson, S. J., Estoup, A., Martin, J., Steinbauer, M., McCulloch, L., & Sword, G. A.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • Chapuis, Marie-Pierre||Popple, Julie-Anne||Simpson, Stephen J||Estoup, Arnaud||Martin, Jean-François||Steinbauer, Martin||McCulloch, Laurence||Sword, Gregory A

publication date

  • November 2008

publisher