Establishment of Microsatellite Markers to Assess the Mating System of the Fan-Tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) for Studying Cuckoo-Host Arms Race

Małgorzata A. Gazda; Ralph Kuehn; Nozomu J. Sato; Keita D. Tanaka; Yuji Okahisa; Keisuke Ueda; Roman Gula; Jörn Theuerkauf

doi:10.5735/086.052.0503

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18 December 2015 Establishment of Microsatellite Markers to Assess the Mating System of the Fan-Tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) for Studying Cuckoo-Host Arms Race

Małgorzata A. Gazda, Ralph Kuehn, Nozomu J. Sato, Keita D. Tanaka, Yuji Okahisa, Keisuke Ueda, Roman Gula, Jörn Theuerkauf

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Annales Zoologici Fennici, 52(5–6):280-284 (2015). https://doi.org/10.5735/086.052.0503

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We developed a set of microsatellite markers for the fan-tailed gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis), host of a brood parasite, the shining bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus). We used 454 pyro-sequencing to establish 17 polymorphic microsatellite markers. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 6 to 18, the expected heterozygosity from 0.328 to 0.931 and the polymorphism information content from 0.306 to 0.916. The developed set of microsatellites will allow us to determine the gerygone's mating system, which is crucial to understand inheritance of dichromatism in skin colour of their chicks.

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Małgorzata A. Gazda, Ralph Kuehn, Nozomu J. Sato, Keita D. Tanaka, Yuji Okahisa, Keisuke Ueda, Roman Gula, and Jörn Theuerkauf "Establishment of Microsatellite Markers to Assess the Mating System of the Fan-Tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) for Studying Cuckoo-Host Arms Race," Annales Zoologici Fennici 52(5–6), 280-284, (18 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.5735/086.052.0503

Received: 27 April 2015; Accepted: 30 August 2015; Published: 18 December 2015

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