Isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci from the longheaded eagle ray, Aetobatus flagellum (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae)

N Yagishita; A Yamaguchi

doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02568.x

Isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci from the longheaded eagle ray, Aetobatus flagellum (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae)

Mol Ecol Resour. 2009 May;9(3):1034-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02568.x. Epub 2009 Mar 2.

Authors

N Yagishita¹, A Yamaguchi

Affiliation

¹ Institute for East China Sea Research, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Taira-machi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan, Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.

PMID: 21564830
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02568.x

Abstract

The longheaded eagle ray, Aetobatus flagellum feeds mainly on bivalves, and there have been some indications that the current reduction in the bivalve population in southern Japan may be due to an increase in the number of longheaded eagle rays. Consequently, the 'predator control programme' for reducing the longheaded eagle ray population was established in 2001 in Japan. For studying the population genetics of the longheaded eagle ray, we isolated eight polymorphic microsatellite loci (two to six alleles per locus; expected heterozygosity, 0.172-0.700) from this species.