Twenty polymorphic microsatellites in two of North Africa's most threatened ungulates: Gazella dorcas and Ammotragus lervia (Bovidae; Artiodactyla)

During the last century, North African ungulate species have suffered from habitat loss and over‐hunting. Gazella dorcas (Antilopidae subfamily) and Ammotragus lervia (Caprinae subfamily) are among the ungulates that have suffered most. To help to protect these species, conservation programs and pop...

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Published in:	Molecular ecology notes Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 452 - 455
Main Authors:	BEJA-PEREIRA, ALBANO, ZEYL, EVE, OURAGH, LAHOUSINE, NAGASH, HAMID, FERRAND, NUNO, TABERLET, PIERRE, LUIKART, GORDON
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01-09-2004 Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:	Ammotragus lervia Biodiversity Biodiversity and Ecology Ecology, environment Environmental Sciences Gazella dorcas genetic markers Life Sciences microsatellite North African Ungulates Africa, North microsatellite genetic markers North African Ungulates
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Summary:	During the last century, North African ungulate species have suffered from habitat loss and over‐hunting. Gazella dorcas (Antilopidae subfamily) and Ammotragus lervia (Caprinae subfamily) are among the ungulates that have suffered most. To help to protect these species, conservation programs and population genetics studies are being implemented. Here, we tested 30 published microsatellite primer‐pairs from Bovids (cattle, sheep and goat) on eight individuals from each species. From the 30 loci tested, 20 amplified well and showed moderate allelic richness (3.75 and 4.65 mean number of alleles per species, respectively, for G. dorcas and A. lervia), and moderatly high heterozygosity (0.53 and 0.63 per species, respectively). These 20 polymorphic markers will facilitate conservation and genetic studies in these two species, and promise to be widely useful across divergent ungulate taxa.
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ISSN:	1471-8278 1471-8286
DOI:	10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00678.x