@article{364eec56ca724a91afddb3b411189c4d,
title = "Microsatellite loci from Lanyu scops owl (Otus elegans botelensis) and their cross-species application in four species of strigidae",
abstract = "We developed six new microsatellite markers containing tetranucleotide repeat motifs (GATA/CTAT) for Lanyu scops owl (Otus elegans botelensis) from an enriched partial library. All these loci are polymorphic and conform to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We cross-species tested these and 12 other microsatellite primer pairs previously developed from O. elegans on four other species of owls (O. lettia, O. spilocephalus, O. scops, and Ninox scutulata). Results showed that the degree of polymorphism decreased with increasing phylogenetic distance to O. elegans. Most loci (66.7, 83.3, and 100%) were polymorphic in the three Otus owls but only five (27.8%) were polymorphic in N. scutulata. These microsatellites should be very useful genetic markers in studying the mating system, population genetics, and conservation of other little studied Old World Otus owls.",
keywords = "DNA polymorphism, Genotyping, Microsatellite, Microsatellites, Otus elegans, Strigidae",
author = "Hsu, {Yu Cheng} and Li, {Shou Hsien} and Lin, {Yao Sung} and Severinghaus, {Lucia Liu}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank members of the Lanyu scops owl research team for collecting O. e. botelensis blood samples, Prof. J.C. Chang, Prof. J. Song and Mr. H.H. Chiu for providing blood samples from other species of owls, Dr. Y.J. Huang and members of Genetic Diversity Laboratory, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University for help in lab work. This study was funded by a grant from Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, a National Science Council grant to LLS (NSC 90-2313-B-001-036), and a grant to SHL from the Council of Agriculture [COA 90AT-1.3.3-FR1(5)].",
year = "2006",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s10592-005-5477-x",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "161--165",
journal = "Conservation Genetics",
issn = "1566-0621",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}