Identification and characterization of thirty novel microsatellite DNA markers from the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis expressed sequence tags.
BMC Res Notes 2016;
9:105. [PMID:
26887417 PMCID:
PMC4756445 DOI:
10.1186/s13104-016-1909-6]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Background
The Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis is an economically important decapod crustacean in China. Despite a widespread distribution and production in China, the resources of E. sinensis have experienced a dramatic decline in the past decades. Here we describe a new set of novel polymorphic microsatellite loci to facilitate the investigation of genetic structure and artificial breeding.
Results
In this study, a set of 30 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers for E. sinensis was developed from EST databases. The number of alleles per locus ranged from three to twenty. The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.047 to 0.932 and from 0.047 to 0.935, respectively.
Conclusions
These informative microsatellite markers will be useful in studies of genetics, genomics and marker-assisted selection breeding in E. sinensis.
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