Abstract
The papillose woolly bat (Kerivoula papillosa) is one of the most well known species of an understudied bat genus that may be particularly vulnerable to disturbance and fragmentation events. We describe 22 novel microsa tellite loci, 17 of which are polymorphic in K. papillosa, and one of which is polymorphic in a related species K. pellucida. When tested in a single population, none of the markers significantly deviated from Hardy-Weinberg expectations, showed the presence of null alleles or exhibited linkage disequilibrium. These markers will be useful in determining impacts of forest fragmentation on this species.
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Microsatellite loci were isolated and developed at the Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility, UK. The majority of genotyping was performed at the Genome Centre of Barts and The London Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry. We thank Terry Burke for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. The project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, UK, and the University of London Central Research Fund. Permission to conduct bat research in Malaysia was kindly given by the Economic Planning Unit of the Malaysia Prime Minister’s Department and the Director General, Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Malaysia.
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Struebig, M.J., Horsburgh, G.J., Pandhal, J. et al. Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci in the papillose woolly bat, Kerivoula papillosa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Conserv Genet 9, 751–756 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-007-9384-1
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