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Identification of 104 rapidly-evolving nuclear protein-coding markers for amplification across scaled reptiles using genomic resources

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As the fields of molecular systematics and phylogeography are advancing, it is necessary to incorporate multiple loci in both population and species-level inference. Here, we present primer sets for 104 intronless orthologus exons designed for amplification in all squamates. When comparing the Anolis genome to the Gallus genome, all the markers have less than 67.2% DNA sequence identity, the percent identity of the first third of the commonly used nuclear marker RAG-1. The rate of evolution in these markers is therefore greater than nuclear markers commonly used, and we demonstrate their usefulness for both phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Nicole Rocha, Andrew Feiter, Arianna Kuhn, Maria Tempera, Lauren Adderly, and Stuart Love Nielsen for contributions in laboratory work. We thank Aaron Bauer for providing many tissue samples used in this study. Funding for this project was provided by a National Science Foundation grant (DEB 0515909) and by the Department of Biology at Villanova University.

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  1. Jesse L. Grismer

    Present address: Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd, Dyche Hall, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA

  2. Edward L. Stanley

    Present address: Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024, USA

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  1. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA, 19085-1699, USA

    Daniel M. Portik, Perry L. Wood Jr., Jesse L. Grismer, Edward L. Stanley & Todd R. Jackman

  2. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3160, USA

    Daniel M. Portik

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Portik, D.M., Wood, P.L., Grismer, J.L. et al. Identification of 104 rapidly-evolving nuclear protein-coding markers for amplification across scaled reptiles using genomic resources. Conservation Genet Resour 4, 1–10 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9460-1

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