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Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers in the gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus

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Eight polymorphic microsatellites in the gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, are presented. For 24 genotyped individuals, the number of observed alleles per locus ranged from 10 to 21 (mean = 15), and observed heterozygosity varied between 0.708 and 1.000. Genotypic frequencies did not deviate significantly from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium proportions, and there was no evidence of null alleles or linkage disequilibrium among loci. These microsatellite loci are additional markers for fisheries managers to utilize in population-level B. capriscus assessments.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge Jan R. McDowell (VIMS), John E. Graves (VIMS), Brian Bowen (UH), Jessica Lynch Alfaro (UCLA), and Michael E. Alfaro (UCLA) for lab support. Many thanks to Bill Bogue and Danny Davis for collecting tissues. This research was supported by a University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology research award.

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Sorenson, L. Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers in the gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus . Conservation Genet Resour 5, 967–969 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-9945-1

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