title: Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the sorghum plant bug, Stenotus rubrovittatus (Heteroptera: Miridae).
abstract: Nine polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers from the sorghum plant bug, Stenotus rubrovittatus, were isolated and characterized. These markers were used to analyse 22 individuals from a single field population. The number of alleles at these nine loci ranged from two to 28 (mean = 11.4) and heterozygosity ranged from 0.27 to 0.86 (mean = 0.58). Stenotus rubrovittatus has shown rapid population growth in the decades since the first report in the 1980s of serious damage to a rice crop. These microsatellite markers will be of value for studying both the population genetics and population dynamics of S. rubrovittatus.
authors.affiliation: National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region, Yotsuya, Daisen, Akita 014-0102, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi