Isolation and characterization of 18 new polymorphic microsatellite loci for the swordfish, Xiphias gladius

P Kasapidis; V Pakaki; G Kotoulas; A Magoulas

doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02665.x

Isolation and characterization of 18 new polymorphic microsatellite loci for the swordfish, Xiphias gladius

Mol Ecol Resour. 2009 Sep;9(5):1383-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02665.x. Epub 2009 Mar 27.

Authors

P Kasapidis¹, V Pakaki, G Kotoulas, A Magoulas

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, PO Box 2214, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.

PMID: 21564913
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02665.x

Abstract

Eighteen microsatellite loci (13 di- and 5 tri-repeats) were isolated from swordfish and characterized in two populations from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to 29 and the observed heterozygosity from 0.302 to 0.953. All but one locus conformed to Hardy-Weinberg expectations and there was no evidence for linkage disequilibrium between loci.