title: Isolation and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea, Decapoda).
abstract: Eighteen microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from the blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus Risso 1816, a commercially exploited marine crustacean widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic. Polymorphism was assessed in a population (n = 20) from the southwestern Sardinian seas; 14 loci resulted polymorphic and showed from three to 13 alleles. The observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.2 to 0.85. These microsatellites will be potentially useful for the study of A. antennatus population genetic structure.
authors.affiliation: Centro Competenza sulla Biodiversità Marina, Dipartimento di Biologia animale ed Ecologia, Università di Cagliari, Viale Poetto, 1-09126 Cagliari, Italy.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cannas
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buccoli
authors.forename: Flavio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sacco
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marcias
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salvadori
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cau
authors.forename: Annamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deiana