title: Characterization of EST-derived microsatellites for gene mapping and evolutionary genomics in turbot.
abstract: The detection of microsatellite sequences within expressed sequence tags (ESTs) connects potential markers with specific genes, generating type I markers. We have developed and mapped by linkage analysis a set of EST-derived microsatellites in the turbot, Scophthalmus maximus. One hundred and ninety-one microsatellites were identified from 9256 turbot ESTs. Primer design was possible with 98 microsatellites. After genotyping 25 wild turbot and the parents of two reference families for linkage analysis, 43 EST-derived microsatellites were selected because they met technical and polymorphism criteria. A final set of 31 EST-derived microsatellites could be mapped to 17 linkage groups of the turbot consensus map based on 242 anonymous microsatellites. Twenty-four microsatellite-containing ESTs were functionally annotated, confirming them as type I markers. Nineteen were mapped in the turbot consensus map. These EST-derived microsatellites constitute useful tools for genome scanning of turbot populations, marker-assisted selection programmes and comparative mapping.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Xenética, Facultade de Veterinaria, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain. genelugo@lugo.usc.es
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bouza
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hermida
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Millán
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vilas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vera
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calaza
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martínez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017931:DNA Primers; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005412:Flatfishes / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D023281:Genomics
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers