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We report the development of 13 variable microsatellite loci for the Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). In a sample of 72 individuals from Western Greenland we report heterozygosities ranging from 0.15 to 1.0 (observed) and 0.14 to 0.97 (expected). One locus was found to have a low frequency of null alleles (0.065), all others are in HWE and no evidence of linkage disequilibrium among loci was found.
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Fish tissue collections were generously provided by Mikel Casa, Instituto Español de Oceanografía and Ole Jørgensen, DTU-AQUA, Technical University of Denmark. Funding was provided by a grant from the International Governance Strategy and National Centre for Arctic Aquatic Research Excellence programs of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to MT and DER as well as by an NSERC Discovery Grant to DER. We thank Abby van der Jagt and Sarah Reid-Holland for some of the laboratory work.
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Paterson, I.G., Hardie, D.C., Treble, M.A. et al. Development of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). Conservation Genet Resour 2, 97–100 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-010-9173-x
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