Variation at tri- and tetranucleotide repeat microsatellite loci in the fruit bat genus Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)

Authors

Jay F. Storz, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

12-2000

Comments

Published in Molecular Ecology 9:12 (December 2000), pp. 2199–2201; doi 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.105324.x Copyright © 2000 Blackwell Science Ltd. Used by permission. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117989598/home

Abstract

There is considerable uncertainty surrounding the taxonomic relationship between Cynopterus sphinx and C. brachyotis, and the status of the many named forms within C. sphinx (Storz & Kunz 1999). Polymorphic microsatellite markers for cynopterine fruit bats would greatly aid efforts to elucidate species boundaries and genetic correlates of morphological variation within species. To assess levels of variation in C. sphinx and C. brachyotis, microsatellite genotypes were obtained for a total of 731 bats (620 C. sphinx and 111 C. brachyotis).