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Isolation of sixteen microsatellite loci for Rhoadsia altipinna (Characiformes: Characidae) from an impacted river basin in western Ecuador

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Sixteen polymorphic, dinucleotide microsatellite loci were developed for Rhoadsia altipinna, a small characid fish from impacted rivers in south western Ecuador. None of the loci were in linkage disequilibrium or deviated significantly from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium after sequential Bonferroni correction. Variability was relatively high with allelic richness ranging between 2 and 22 alleles per locus (average = 9.125), observed heterozygosity ranging between 0.125 and 0.958 (average = 0.695), and expected heterozygosity ranging between 0.120 and 0.952 (average = 0.736).

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Acknowledgments

Assistance by Freddy Villao, Margaret Silliker, Félix Man-Ging, Enrique Laaz, Sebastian Alvarado, Uma Dandekar, Alex Riegel, Mireya Pozo, and Mario Brito is gratefully acknowledged. Samples were exported from Ecuador under Permit 012-09 DR5-MAE. Funding was provided by DePaul University.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, 2325 North Clifton Ave., Chicago, IL, 60614, USA

    Maxine Loh, Webster F. Vital, Vinh Vu & Windsor E. Aguirre

  2. Dirección de Investigación, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Av. 25 de Julio y Pío Jaramillo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Ronald Navarrete

  3. Facultad de Ingenieria Marítima, Ciencias Biológicas Oceánicas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Km 30.5 Via Perimetral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Paola Calle

  4. Department of Biology and Geology, University of South Carolina, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC, 29801, USA

    Virginia R. Shervette

  5. Escuela de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil, Av. Raúl Gómez Lince s/n y Av. Juan Tanca Marengo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Antonio Torres

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Maxine Loh and Webster Vital have contributed equally to this work.

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Loh, M., Vital, W.F., Vu, V. et al. Isolation of sixteen microsatellite loci for Rhoadsia altipinna (Characiformes: Characidae) from an impacted river basin in western Ecuador. Conservation Genet Resour 6, 229–231 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-013-0062-y

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