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Conservation genetics of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). II. Limited variability in minisatellite DNA sequences
A C Taylor1, J A Graves, N D Murray
1Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
Biochemical Genetics
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
We have examined variability in TaqI and EcoRI restriction fragment sizes of DNA from the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) using six HVR (hypervariable region) probes which reveal complex, individual-specific restriction patterns in humans and other species. Frequency of band-sharing among unrelated koalas was extremely high. This result is likely to be a consequence of the history of near-extinction and artificial recolonization of the populations we have studied, rather than a general marsupial or koala-wide phenomenon.