Polymorphic microsatellite loci for the ant-garden ant, Crematogaster levior (Forel) Academic Article

abstract

• Throughout Amazonia, the ant Crematogaster levior is known for its participation in a complex ant-garden mutualism with the ant Camponotus femoratus and several species of epiphytic plants for which it plays an important role in seed viability. We isolated nine polymorphic microsatellite loci for C. levior from a genomic library enriched for di-, tri-, and tetra-nucleotide repeats. Two to 14 alleles were detected per locus, with levels of observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.103 to 0.785. 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

authors

• Vargo, Edward

published proceedings

• CONSERVATION GENETICS

author list (cited authors)

• Booth, W., Youngsteadt, E., Schal, C., & Vargo, E. L.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Booth, Warren||Youngsteadt, Elsa||Schal, Coby||Vargo, Edward L

publication date

• June 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Conservation Genetics  Journal

keywords

• Crematogaster
• Di-nucleotide Microsatellite
• Formicidae
• Tetra-nucleotide Microsatellite
• Tri-nucleotide Microsatellite

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10592-008-9597-y

start page

• 639

end page

• 641

volume

• 10

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-008-9597-y