Identification of 10 Polymorphic Loci in the Yellow Mongoose Through Cross-Species Amplification

T.N.C. Vidya

doi:10.3957/056.039.0212

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T.N.C. Vidya^1,*

¹Department of Botany and Zoology University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South A

^*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Present address: Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, P.O. Box 6436, Bangalore 560 064, India. E-mail: tncvidya@jncasr.ac.in

Abstract

The yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) is a facultatively social species and provides an opportunity to study the evolution of social behaviour through examination of populations within the species, as well as comparison with obligatorily social species of mongooses. I Identified 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers in the yellow mongoose through cross-species amplification that allow sociogenetic studies to be carried out. Most of these loci showed higher levels of polymorphism and heterozygosity in the yellow mongoose samples screened than in the species in which these microsatellites were originally characterized.

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T.N.C. Vidya "Identification of 10 Polymorphic Loci in the Yellow Mongoose Through Cross-Species Amplification," South African Journal of Wildlife Research 39(2), 133-136, (1 October 2009). https://doi.org/10.3957/056.039.0212

Received: 6 December 2008; Accepted: 1 October 2009; Published: 1 October 2009

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