Development and characterization of 10 microsatellite markers in the Cape horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus capensis (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) and cross-amplification in southern African Rhinolophus species

BMC Research Notes

Jacqueline M. Bishop¹  Kevin Feldheim²  David S. Jacobs¹  Nicolas Nesi¹ 

[1] Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa;Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 60605, IL, USA

关键词: Rhinolophidae;    Genetic connectivity;    Cross-amplification;    Microsatellites;    Rhinolophus capensis;   

Others  :  1229976
DOI  :  10.1186/s13104-015-1465-5

 received in 2015-06-15, accepted in 2015-09-21,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

The Cape horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus capensis, is endemic to the Cape region of South Africa. Coalescent analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence data suggests extensive historical gene flow between populations despite strong geographic variation of their echolocation call phenotype. Nevertheless the fine-scale genetic structure and evolutionary ecology of R. capensis remains poorly understood. Here we describe the development of 10 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci to investigate of the dispersal ecology of R. capensis and to facilitate taxonomic studies of Rhinolophus species in southern Africa.

Findings

We report 10 microsatellite primer pairs that consistently amplify scorable and polymorphic loci across 12 African rhinolophid species. Initial analysis of two populations of R. capensis from South Africa revealed moderate to high levels of allelic variation with 4–14 alleles per locus and observed heterozygosities of 0.450–0.900. No evidence of linkage disequilibrium was observed and eight of the loci showed no departure from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. Cross-species utility of these markers revealed consistently amplifiable polymorphic loci in eleven additional rhinolophid species.

Conclusions

The cross-amplification success of the microsatellites developed here provides a cost-effective set of population genetic marker for the study of rhinolophid evolutionary ecology and conservation in southern Africa.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Nesi et al.

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