title: Isolation and characterization of 24 polymorphic microsatellite loci in Sepioteuthis lessoniana.
abstract: Owing to their codominant, multiallelic, and highly  polymorphic nature, microsatellite markers have been used widely in population  genetics and biological resource conservation studies. To investigate the  genetic structure of Sepioteuthis lessoniana, we developed 24  microsatellite DNA markers and assessed the polymorphism of each locus in a  wild S. lessoniana population. The number of alleles per locus ranged  from 4 to 26, and the observed and expected heterozygosities varied from 0.188  to 1.000 and 0.392 to 0.959 with an average of 0.675 and 0.852, respectively.  These microsatellite loci will be useful tools in future studies of population  genetic structure in this species.
authors.affiliation: Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. xdzheng@ouc.edu.cn
authors.forename: X-D
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Z-R
authors.initials: ZR
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.forename: X-J
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D049832:Decapodiformes / Q000235:genetics*; D056426:Genetic Loci / Q000235:genetics*; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D004247:DNA