Microsatellite loci for the Chinese bamboo rat Rhizomus sinensis
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Xiangjiang Zhan1, Yibo Hu, Yanqiang Yin
1Biodiversity and Ecological Processes Group, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK. zhanxj@cf.ac.uk
Abstract:
We describe 19 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the bamboo rat Rhizomus sinensis. When tested with 20 samples from a single population, these loci exhibited a mean of 4.5 alleles per locus and a mean expected heterozygosity of 0.612. All loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and no evidence for linkage disequilibrium was detected between any loci. These loci will be useful for studying population genetic diversity and differentiation in the Chinese bamboo rat.
