[Coral-List] 40 new miscrosatellies for Acropora millepora, transferable to other species

[mikhail matz]

Dear colleagues,

We have recently published a paper that may be of interest to those  
of you working on population genetics and connectivity of corals:

Wang, S., Zhang, L. and Matz, M.V. Microsatellite characterization  
and marker development from public EST and WGS databases in the reef- 
building coral Acropora millepora (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia).  
Journal of Heredity 2008, doi: 10.1093/jhered/esn100.

We report 40 novel microsatellite markers for Acropora millepora,  
mined from existing DNA sequence resources (ESTs and WGS sequences in  
the NCBI database). 25 of those are transferrable to Acropora  
hyacinthus, and so there is a good chance that they will apply to  
your favorite Acropora species as well.

The paper can be downloaded from here:
http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab/matzlab/Papers.html

cheers

Misha

Mikhail V. Matz
University of Texas at Austin
Integrative Biology Section
1 University station C0930
Austin, TX 78712
phone 512-992-8086 cell, 512-475-6424 lab
fax 512-471-3878
web http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab