Abstract
We describe the first set of ten microsatellite markers isolated in Pipistrellus abramus. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 7 to 13. The observed and expected heterozygosities values ranged from 0.486 to 0.971 and from 0.752 to 0.876, respectively. Three loci revealed significant departure from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and no linkage disequilibrium was found between loci pairs. These informative microsatellite markers will be a powerful molecular tool for studying the population genetic structure of P. abramus, as well as other species of this genus.
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This work was funded by a grant under the Key Construction Program of the National “985” Project and Grant 07DZ22940 from the Shanghai government to S Zhang. We thank T. Y. Hong, W. C. Liu, L. B. Zhang and W. Zhang for providing bat tissue samples.
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Wei, L., Hua, P., Shao, W. et al. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the Japanese pipistrelle (Pipistrellus abramus). Conserv Genet 10, 677–679 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-008-9613-2
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