title: Development of EST-SSRs by an efficient FIASCO-based strategy: a case study in rare minnow (Gobiocyrpis rarus).
abstract: Type I markers are useful for comparative mapping and other genetic analyses, but relatively difficult to develop. In the present study a microsatellite (SSR)-enriched cDNA library was constructed for the first time using the fast isolation by AFLP of sequences containing repeats (FIASCO) method in a small fish, Chinese rare minnow (Gobiocypris rarus). A total of 97.4% of the expressed sequence tags (ESTs) contained targeted CA-repeats, in which 29 unique EST-SSRs were identified. Ten out of the 28 loci for which primer pairs were designed were polymorphic with alleles ranging from three to seven (mean 4.50). Some of these EST-SSRs can be amplified in other species. These results proved that cDNA-FIASCO is an efficient way to isolate novel EST-SSRs in a fish.
authors.affiliation: The State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tong
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D054458:Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003530:Cyprinidae / Q000235:genetics*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005819:Genetic Markers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D005819:Genetic Markers