The Chinese Bamboo Partridge(Bambusicola thoracica) is a gamebird endemic to China.Ten polymorphic microsatellite(simple sequence repeat) markers were obtained through cross-species amplification for this partridge fr...The Chinese Bamboo Partridge(Bambusicola thoracica) is a gamebird endemic to China.Ten polymorphic microsatellite(simple sequence repeat) markers were obtained through cross-species amplification for this partridge from its relative species Gallus gallus.The number of alleles per locus varied from 4 to 13.The observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.1220 to 1.0000 and the expected heterozygosity from 0.1183 to 0.8898.Four microsatellite loci showed significant differences from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.These polymorphic loci provide a valuable tool for the investigation of the phylogeography and conservation genetics of this partridge.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30760036,30960051)Young Scientists (Jinggang Star) Training Scheme of Jiangxi ProvinceNatural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (2009GZN0075)
文摘The Chinese Bamboo Partridge(Bambusicola thoracica) is a gamebird endemic to China.Ten polymorphic microsatellite(simple sequence repeat) markers were obtained through cross-species amplification for this partridge from its relative species Gallus gallus.The number of alleles per locus varied from 4 to 13.The observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.1220 to 1.0000 and the expected heterozygosity from 0.1183 to 0.8898.Four microsatellite loci showed significant differences from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.These polymorphic loci provide a valuable tool for the investigation of the phylogeography and conservation genetics of this partridge.