Abstract
Amphioctopus fangsiao is a commercially important and potential species located in the waters of China. In this survey, the first set of 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci for A. fangsiao was developed and characterized. The number of alleles ranged from 2 to 16 per locus and the observed and expected heterozygosities varied from 0.200 to 0.966 and from 0.276 to 0.917, respectively. Only one locus (Amf12) deviated significantly from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium after correction for multiple tests. These informative markers will offer insights to the assessment of population structure and conservation genetics of the species in the future.
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We thank ZR Zuo and XJ Su for their help in this study and also thank WJ Wang and G Dong for the sample collection. This study was supported by research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (31172058) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (201122005).
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Gao, X., Zheng, X. & Li, Q. Development and characterization of twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci in the cephalopod Amphioctopus fangsiao (d’Orbigny, 1839–1841). Conservation Genet Resour 5, 619–621 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-9864-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-9864-1