Molecular Ecology Notes (2004) 4, 104-109

Alex C.C. Wilson, Blandine Massonnet, Jean-Christophe Simon, Nathalie Prunier-Leterme, Lotfali Dolatti, Kate S. Llewellyn, Christian C. Figueroa, Claudio C. Ramirez, Roger L. Blackman, Arnaud Estoup and Paul Sunnucks (2004)
Cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in aphids: assessment and application
Molecular Ecology Notes 4 (1), 104-109
Abstract: Despite the relative ease of isolating microsatellites, their development still requires substantial inputs of time, money and expertise. For this reason there is considerable interest in using existing microsatellites on species from which markers were not cloned. We tested cross-species amplification of 48 existing aphid loci in species of the following genera: Aphidinae: Aphidini: Aphis and Rhopalosiphum; Aphidinae: Macrosiphini: Acyrthosiphum, Brevicoryne, Diuraphis, Illinoia, Macrosiphoniella, Macrosiphum, Metopeurum, Metapolophium, Myzus, Phorodon, Sitobion and Uroleucon and Neuquenaphidinae: Neuquenaphis. Our results show cross-species application of known microsatellite loci is a highly promising source of codominant markers for population genetic and evolutionary studies in aphids.
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Database assignments for author(s): Claudio C. Ramirez, Christian C. Figueroa

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Aphis (genus)
	Rhopalosiphum (genus)
	Sitobion (genus)
	Myzus (genus)
	Phorodon (genus)
	Macrosiphum (genus)
	Uroleucon (genus)
	Diuraphis (genus)
	Macrosiphoniella (genus)
	Illinoia (genus)
	Neuquenaphis (genus)