Eleven microsatellite loci isolated from the banded wren (Thryothorus pleurostictus).
We describe 11 microsatellite loci isolated from the Banded Wren (Thryothorus pleurostictus), a Neotropical species for which understanding the genetic mating system is important for testing questions about the species' unusual vocal behavior. Screening of these loci revealed extremely low allelic variation in a Costa Rican population. Allelic variation at these and other previously developed loci is substantially higher in two other wren species, the southern house wren (Troglodytes aedon bonariae) and rufous-and-white wren (Thryothorus rufalbus), suggesting that the low allelic diversity in the banded wren results from demographic bottlenecks rather than locus-sampling artifacts.
Brar
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Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
Schoenle
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Stenzler
L M
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Hall
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Vehrencamp
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Lovette
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