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Microsatellite loci for the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina |
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| Authors: | N AZUMA J TAKAHASHI S HIGASHI M SASAKI |
| Abstract: | We developed 13 microsatellite loci in Oecophylla smaragdina from random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragments. These loci showed two to 14 alleles in O. smaragdina with expected heterozygosity of each locus from 0.10 to 0.89, and six were also polymorphic in the related species, O. longinoda. The results suggested that the loci will be useful to analyse the genetic structure of Oecophylla species at both the colony and population levels. |
| Keywords: | microsatellite DNA Oecophylla longinoda Oecophylla smaragdina random amplified polymorphic DNA weaver ant |