Development of 28 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endemic Azorean spider Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

"We isolated and characterized a total of 28 microsatellite loci from Sancus acoreensis. Loci were screened in 26 individuals originating from seven (Flores, Faial, Pico, São Jorge, Terceira, São Miguel, and Santa Maria) out of the nine islands of the Azores. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 14, observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.040 to 0.708, and the probability of identity values ranged from 0.02 to 0.97. Sancus acoreensis is a Laurel forest specialist species, endemic to the Azores, and is facing a great extinction risk due to the severe fragmentation of its habitat. The newly developed microsatellite loci will aid in detecting signs of population bottlenecks and pinpoint the island populations that are facing the greatest risk of extinction. […]".

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Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) Endemic Azorean Spider

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2591

Citation

Parmakelis, Aristeidis; Balanika, Katerina; Terzopoulou, Sofia; Rigal, Francois; Beasley, Rochelle R.; Jones, Kenneth L.; Lance, Stacey L.; Whittaker, Robert J.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Borges, Paulo A.V.. "Development of 28 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endemic Azorean spider Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)", Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(4), 1133-1134, 2013.