Molecular Ecology Notes (2002) 2, 518-520

Yoshinobu Hayashi, Osamu Kitade and Jun-Ichi Kojima (2002)
Microsatellite loci in the Japanese subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus
Molecular Ecology Notes 2 (4), 518-520
Abstract: Reticulitermes termites have such a cryptic life style and complex colony structure that polymorphic microsatellite markers are desired to investigate their population and colony structures. We successfully isolated seven microsatellite loci in R. speratus, the Japanese subterranean termite, five of which were polymorphic. These polymorphic loci had 2-8 alleles per locus and their observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.059 to 0.438. These five loci were also polymorphic in R. kanmonensis, distributed sympatrically with R. speratus in the Kanmon Region, western Japan; the number of alleles per locus was 2-5, and observed heterozygosity was 0.176-0.625.
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Database assignments for author(s): Yoshinobu Hayashi, Osamu Kitade

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.
	Reticulitermes speratus		Japan
	Reticulitermes kanmonensis		Japan