Leporinus macrocephalus is a species endemic to the Paraguay River basin and an important fishery resource, as well as a valuable species in aquaculture programs. A total of eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were ...

Microsatellites are well-known DNA markers used in a variety of studies such as genome mapping, genetic diversity analysis, genetic conservation and phylogenetic studies. Although microsatellites are important markers, ...

The ability of a population to adapt to a changing environment depends on its genetic variation. Thus, the study of genetic diversity within and among species or populations is especially important on conservation biology ...

Transferability of microsatellite loci between closely related species has been reported in several species. This helps reduce costs involved with the development of primers for newly investigated species. Fifteen ...

The catfish Phractocephalus hemioliopterus is native to the Amazon and Araguaia-Tocantins basins and one of the most exuberant catfishes. This specie is important, but overfishing, environmental changes, and water pollution ...

We isolated and characterized twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci for Leptodactylus chaquensis. Levels of polymorphism of the microsatellite loci measured in twenty individuals showed two to 7 alleles per locus with ...

Aeschynomene falcata is an important forage species; however, because of low seed production, it is underutilized as forage species. Aeschynomene is a polyphyletic genus with a challenging taxonomic position. Two subgenera ...

Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), have proven to be an important molecular marker in plant genetics and breeding research. The main strategies to obtain these markers can be through genomic DNA and from ...