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Development of new microsatellite loci and evaluation of loci from other pinniped species for the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki)

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Elke Hippauf for performing an excellent job in the laboratory, Arne Nolte and Till Bayer for helpful discussions, Fritz Trillmich for supporting the project, the Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos and the Charles Darwin Research Station for granting the sampling permits and for providing the necessary infrastructure. This work is part of a major study on social and genetic structure of the Galápagos sea lion funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung to Fritz Trillmich and Jochen B.W. Wolf. Sebastian Steinfartz has been supported by a fellowship (STE 1130/2-2) of the German Research Community (DFG). The Yale Institute for Biospheric studies supported this project through funds to Adalgisa Caccone.

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  1. University of Bielefeld, Animal Behaviour, PO Box 10 01 31, , D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Jochen B.W. Wolf & Sebastian Steinfartz

  2. Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Zuelpicherstr. 47, 121, D-50931, Cologne, Germany

    Diethard Tautz

  3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA

    Adalgisa Caccone & Sebastian Steinfartz

  4. Molecular Systematics and Conservation Genetics Laboratory, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA

    Adalgisa Caccone & Sebastian Steinfartz

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Wolf, J.B., Tautz, D., Caccone, A. et al. Development of new microsatellite loci and evaluation of loci from other pinniped species for the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki). Conserv Genet 7, 461–465 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-005-9045-1

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