title: Characterization of microsatellite loci In The hihi Notiomystis cincta (Notiomystidae, Aves).
abstract: We have characterized 20 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the hihi Notiomystis cincta. Loci were identified by testing loci originally isolated in other avian species and by isolating new microsatellites from a hihi genomic library. These loci were characterized in unrelated hihi from a single population on Tiritiri Matangi Island (n = 98). Each locus displayed between two and 10 alleles, and observed heterozygosities ranged between 0.29 and 0.91. Nineteen of the 20 polymorphic loci could be assigned a chromosome location in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata genome based on sequence homology.
authors.affiliation: NERC Molecular Genetics Facility, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, UK. patricia.brekke@ioz.ac.uk
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brekke
authors.forename: Deborah A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: Gavin J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Horsburgh
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ewen