title: Isolation and characterization of 11 novel microsatellite loci in a West African leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros aff. ruber.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Noack's leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros ruber, is a cryptic species within the Hipposideros caffer species complex. Despite a widespread distribution in Africa and being host to potentially zoonotic viruses, the genetic structure and ecology of H. ruber is poorly known. Here we describe the development of 11 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci to facilitate the investigation of genetic structure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We selected 20 microsatellite sequences identified from high throughput sequence reads and PCR amplified these for 38 individuals, yielding 11 consistently amplifying and scorable loci. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to 12, and observed heterozygosities from 0.00 to 0.865. No evidence of linkage disequilibrium was observed, and nine of the markers showed no departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We demonstrate successful amplification in two closely related species and two divergent lineages of the H. caffer species complex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These new markers will provide a valuable tool to investigate genetic structure in the poorly understood Hipposideros caffer species complex.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany. heather.baldwin@uni-ulm.de.
authors.forename: Heather J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vallo
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Drosten
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tschapka
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Stow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics*; D017931:DNA Primers; D006579:Heterozygote; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers