Polymorphic microsatellite loci for the ant-garden ant, Crematogaster levior (Forel) |
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| Authors: | Warren Booth Elsa Youngsteadt Coby Schal Edward L Vargo |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Entomology and W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | Crematogaster Formicidae Di-nucleotide microsatellite Tri-nucleotide microsatellite Tetra-nucleotide microsatellite |
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