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SUBMITTER: Brooke Mde L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2846277 | biostudies-other | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Brooke M de L Mde L Welbergen Justin A JA Mainwaring Mark C MC van der Velde Marco M Harts A M F AM Komdeur Jan J Amos William W
Journal of molecular evolution 20100319 3
Species that pass repeatedly through narrow population bottlenecks (<100 individuals) are likely to have lost a large proportion of their genetic variation. Having genotyped 92 Raso larks Alauda razae, a Critically Endangered single-island endemic whose world population in the Cape Verdes over the last 100 years has fluctuated between about 15 and 130 pairs, we found variation at 7 of 21 microsatellite loci that successfully amplified, the remaining loci being monomorphic. At 6 of the polymorphi ...[more]