Development of 10 Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci Isolated From The Mountain Beaver, Aplodontia rufa rufa (Rafinesque)

Authors

• Antoinette J. Piaggio, USDA/APHIS/WS National Wildlife Research CenterFollow
• Melissa A. Neubaum, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services
• Hesther Yueh, Genetics Data Centre, University of British Columbia Department of Forest Sciences
• Carol E. Ritland, Genetics Data Centre, University of British Columbia Department of Forest Sciences
• John J. Johnston, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife ServicesFollow
• Susan L. Perkins, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in Molecular Ecology Resources (2009) 9, 323–325.

Abstract

We developed 10 microsatellite markers for the mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa rufa. In three populations of A. r. rufa, the number of alleles for these loci ranged from monomorphic to nine. Average observed heterozygosities in these populations ranged from 0.29 to 0.60. We also tested previously published markers from the endangered subspecies A. r. nigra in A. r. rufa populations.