Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Branchiostoma belcheri Gray (Amphioxus)
“Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Branchiostoma belcheri Gray (Amphioxus)”, vol. 14, pp. 10224-10227, 2015.
, Branchiostoma belcheri Gray is a second-class, nationally protected protochordate in China. We developed 10 novel polymorphic sites in B. belcheri, which were examined using a population of 30 wild individuals from Xiamen, China. The polymorphism information content ranged between 0.141 and 0.681, and the number of alleles varied from 2 to 5. The expected and observed heterozygosities varied between 0.1528 and 0.6920, and between 0.1429 and 0.5000, respectively. These novel microsatellite markers will facilitate the genetic analysis and protection of wild B.