Authors: JiChun Yan TaoLin Luo HaiLong Wu
Publish Date: 2010/10/02
Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-227
Abstract
The Chinese concaveeared frog is a rare species endemic to a restricted region of easternChina In the present study we isolated twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci from a dinucleotide—or trinucleotide—enriched library for the frog The number of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 11 with an average of 592 The observed and expected heterozygosities varied from 0063 to 0862 and from 0062 to 0873 with an average of 0453 and 0601 respectively The polymorphic microsatellite locidescribed here are expected to be useful for further studies of the genetic structure gene flow andmating mechanism in Rana tormotus which in turn will be helpful in developing conservation andmanagement strategies for the rare frog
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