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Dinucleotide microsatellite markers in the genus Caulerpa
Varela-Álvarez, Elena
Glenn, T. C.
Serrao, Ester Álvares
Duarte, Carlos M.
Martínez-Daranas, B.
Valero, Miriam
Marbà, Núria
Caulerpa spp. are clonal green marine algae which often act as invasive species when growing outside their native biogeographical borders. Over the two past decades, Caulerpa taxifolia has spread along the Mediterranean coast, presently occurring at 70 sites and covering nearly 3,000 ha of subtidal area. New genetic markers (microsatellites) have been developed to assess clonal structure and genetic diversity of recently established populations of the invasive species C. taxifolia and Caulerpa racemosa in comparison with populations of the native Caulerpa prolifera in the Mediterranean. Our results show that nine polymorphic markers have been developed for C. prolifera, seven for C. taxifolia, and three for C. racemosa. Genetic diversity in Caulerpa was assessed in two geographical scales: one at a population scale where 40 thalli units were collected from C. prolifera in Cala d'Or, Mallorca, Spain, and another at a species scale, where 30 sample units were analyzed for C. prolifera, 24 for C. taxifolia, and 24 for C. racemosa from different sites in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean. Number of alleles, expected heterozygosity, and marker amplification success are provided in each case. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
This work was financed through the following projects: CAULEXPAN (REN 2002-00701), MACROALGAS INVASORAS (CTM2005-01434/MAR) by the MECD (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia Español) to NM, PRADERAS by the Foundation BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) to CD, CAULERPA_GENETICS (PTDC/MAR/70921/2006) by FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation) co-funded by FEDER, and a Postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/17206/2004) from FCT, Portugal, co-funded by FSE, both to EVA, by the NoE Marine Genomics Europe (GOCE-CT-2004-505403, WP6, algal node) to MV and ES, and supported in part by the Department of Energy award DE-FC09-07SR22506 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
Peer Reviewed
2012-10-16T09:24:01Z
2012-10-16T09:24:01Z
2011
2012-10-16T09:24:01Z
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
doi: 10.1007/s10811-010-9568-9
issn: 0921-8971
Journal of Applied Phycology 23 : 715-719 (2011)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/58076
10.1007/s10811-010-9568-9
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Kluwer Academic Publishers