Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhornpathom 73170, Thailand Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhornpathom 73170, Thailand Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
Mol Ecol Resour. 2008 Jan;8(1):175-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01916.x.
The endangered Asian elephant is found today primarily in protected areas. We characterized 18 dinucleotide microsatellite loci in this species. Allelic diversity ranged from three to eight per locus, and observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.200 to 0.842 in a wild population. All loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, but linkage disequilibrium was detected between two loci in the wild, but not in the zoo elephants. These loci will be useful for the population-level studies of this species.
目前,濒危的亚洲象主要生活在保护区内。本研究在亚洲象中鉴定了 18 个二核苷酸微卫星位点。每个位点的等位基因多样性为 3-8 个,野生种群的观测杂合度为 0.200-0.842。所有位点均处于哈迪-温伯格平衡状态,但在野生种群中检测到两个位点之间存在连锁不平衡,而在动物园中的亚洲象中未检测到。这些微卫星位点将有助于对该物种进行群体水平的研究。