Twelve microsatellite loci for lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

Maryclare F Rollins; Ninh V Vu; Ingrid B Spies; Steven T Kalinowski

doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02403.x

Twelve microsatellite loci for lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

Mol Ecol Resour. 2009 May;9(3):871-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02403.x. Epub 2009 Feb 3.

Authors

Maryclare F Rollins¹, Ninh V Vu, Ingrid B Spies, Steven T Kalinowski

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ecology, 310 Lewis Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, USA.

PMID: 21564773
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02403.x

Abstract

We describe 12 microsatellite loci isolated from lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). The number of alleles at these loci ranged from two to 11 with an average of 5.3 alleles per locus. The expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.29 to 0.76, with an average of 0.68. Accidental (or illegal) introductions of lake trout into watersheds are decimating native trout populations in the northern Rocky Mountains, and these loci will be useful for identifying the source of these introductions and for estimating the number of founding individuals.