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Simo N Maduna1,2, Charné Rossouw3, Ruhan Slabbert4
1Molecular Breeding and Biodiversity Group, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag XI, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa. simo@sun.ac.za.
Abstract:
The non-model shark species, dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus, is a bio-economically and recreationally important shark in many areas of its range. Despite of the fishery importance of C. obscurus few genetic resources are currently available for the species. Here, we report on the isolation of eight novel microsatellite loci from C. obscurus using a double-digest restriction site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing approach on the Ion Proton semiconductor platform (ddRADseq-ion). We characterised the loci in 26 individuals and all loci were polymorphic, exhibiting 5-10 alleles (average 6.6), and observed and expected heterozygosities of 0.385-0.962 and 0.479-0.847, respectively. We found that all pairs of loci were in linkage equilibrium and conformed to Hardy-Weinberg expectations. The loci reported in this study are only the second set of microsatellite loci ever characterized for C. obscurus and will be valuable for molecular ecology studies for this vulnerable species.
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