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SUBMITTER: Ewers-Saucedo C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4878368 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ewers-Saucedo Christine C Zardus John D JD Wares John P JP
PeerJ 20160517
Microsatellite markers remain an important tool for ecological and evolutionary research, but are unavailable for many non-model organisms. One such organism with rare ecological and evolutionary features is the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758). Chelonibia testudinaria appears to be a host generalist, and has an unusual sexual system, androdioecy. Genetic studies on host specificity and mating behavior are impeded by the lack of fine-scale, highly variable markers, such ...[more]