Abstract
Forty-one microsatellite loci were found to be polymorphic in the Leach’s storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa when characterised in 24 unrelated individuals sampled from a population located at Gull Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Sequence homology was used to assign a predicted chromosome location for 39 of the polymorphic loci. Four polymorphic microsatellite loci were Z-linked based on the typing of known sex individuals and/or sequence homology. The set of 37 autosomal markers will be suitable for population and parentage studies of the Leach’s storm-petrel (combined first parent non-exclusion probability <0.0001).
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We thank the Canada Wildlife Services and Greg Robertson for permission and help collecting blood samples. Terry Burke provided helpful advice. This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and performed at the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility at Sheffield, UK.
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Bicknell, A.W.J., Dawson, D.A., Horsburgh, G.J. et al. Characterisation and predicted genome locations of Leach’s storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) microsatellite loci (Procellariidae, Aves). Conservation Genet Resour 3, 711–716 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9439-y
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