Cross-species amplification of bovid microsatellites in central African duikers (genus Cephalophus) and other sympatric artiodactyls.
Mol Ecol Resour
; 10(6): 1059-65, 2010 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
The present study set out to evaluate cross-species amplification of 34 bovid microsatellites in six central African duikers Cephalophus callipygus, C. monticola, C. silvicultor, C. nigrifrons, C. dorsalis and C. leucogaster. Of these loci, 16 amplified across all species and appeared polymorphic when initially tested in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Twelve of these loci were subsequently assembled into three multiplex panels of four loci each. These multiplexes successfully amplified across all six duiker species in the present study and the sympatric artiodactyls Tragelaphus spekei and Hyemoschus aquaticus. The only exception was the locus BM848 that did not amplify from C. leucogaster. For species with sufficient sample sizes (C. callipygus and C. monticola), the number of alleles ranged from three to ten and four to fifteen, respectively. Three loci deviated from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in C. callipygus and five in C. monticola. We attribute the latter result to possibilities of local population substructuring or to an excess of homozygotes because of null alleles. These multiplex assemblies will greatly facilitate studies of individual identification, parentage analysis, population size estimation and fine-scale analyses of population genetic structure in central African artiodactyls.
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