Deborah Dawson,
Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility,
Dept of Animal and Plant Sciences,
Alfred Denny Building,
University of Sheffield,
Western Bank,
Sheffield,
S10 2TN, UK
Cross-utility of passerine microsatellite primers
Primer code references
Aar
Hansson B, Bensch S, Hasselquist D, Lillandt B, Wennerberg L, von Schantz T (in press) Increase
of genetic variation over time in a recently founded population of great reed warblers
(Acrocephalus arundinaceus) revealed by microsatellites and DNA fingerprinting. Molecular
Ecology
Ase
Richardson DS, Jury FL, Dawson DA, Salguiero P, Burke T. (2000) Isolation and characterisation
of 50 microsatellite loci from the Seychelles Warber (Acrocephalus secchellensis), and their crossspecies amplification within the Sylviidae family and a range of other passerine birds. Molecular
Ecology, 9, 2226-2231.
Dpµ
Dawson RJG, Gibbs HL, Hobson KA, Yezerinac SM (1997) Isolation of microsatellite DNA
markers from a passerine bird, Dendroica petechia (the yellow warbler), and their uses in
population studies. Heredity, 79, 506-514.
Esc
Hanotte O, Zanon C, Pugh A, Greig C, Dixon A, Burke T (1994) Isolation and characterization of
microsatellite loci in a passerine bird: the reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus. Molecular Ecology,
3, 529-530.
FhU
Primmer CR, Møller A.P., Ellegren H (1996b) New microsatellites from the pied flycatcher
Ficedula hypoleuca and the swallow Hirundo rustica genomes. Hereditas,124, 281-283.
FhU
Primmer CR, Møller AP, Ellergren H (1997) Erratum (FhU3 primer sequence was incorrect).
Molecular Ecology, 6, 101.
Gf
Petren K (1998) Microsatellite primers from Geospiza fortis and cross-species amplification in Darwin's finches.
Molecular Ecology, 7, 1782-1784.
HrU
Primmer CR, Møller AP, Ellergren H (1995) Resolving genetic relationships with microsatellite
markers: a parentage testing system for the swallow, Hirundo rustica. Molecular Ecology, 4, 493498.
HrU
Primmer CR, Møller AP, Ellergren H (1996a) A wide-range survey of cross-species microsatellite
amplification in birds. Molecular Ecology, 5, 365-378.
HS TG, HS E3, HS G4
Griffith SC, Dawson DA, Burke T
Unpublished house sparrow (Passer domesticus) microsatlellite markers – see Pdo 7 - 10
Indi
(Indigo)
Sefc KM, Payne RB, Sorenson MD (2001) Characterisation of microsatellite loci in village indigobirds Vidua
chalybeata and cross-species amplification in estrildid and ploceid finches. Molecular Ecology Notes, 1, 252-254.
Lox
Piertney SB, Marquiss M, Summers R (1998) Characterisation of tetranucleotide microsatellites in
the Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica). Molecular Ecology, 7, 1261-1263.
LS1 & LS2
Mundy NI, Woodruff DS (1996) Polymorphic microsatellite primers in the loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus
isolated from a library enriched for CA repeats. Molecular Ecology, 5 (6), 811-813.
Mcy
Double MC, Dawson D, Burke T, Cockburn A (1997) Finding the fathers in the least faithful bird:
a microsatellite-based genotyping system for the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus. Molecular
Ecology, 6, 691-693.
MJG1 & MJG8
Li SH, Huang YJ, Brown JL (1997) Isolation of tetranucleotide microsatelites from the Mexican
jay Aphelocoma ultramarina. Molecular Ecology 6 499-501.
Mme
Jeffrey KJ, Keller LF, Arcese P, Bruford MW (in press) The development of microsatellite loci in
the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) and genotyping errors associated with good quality DNA.
Molecular Ecology
PATMP2-14 & PATMP2-43
Otter K, Ratcliffe L, Michaud D, Boag PT (1998) Do female black-capped chickadees prefer highranking males as extra-pair partners? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 43, 25-36.
Pca
Dawson DA, Hanotte O, Greig C, Stewart IRK, Burke T (2000) Polymorphic microsatellites in the
blue tit Parus caeruleus and their cross-species utility in twenty songbird families. Molecular
Ecology, 9, 1941-1944.
Pdo1, Pdo3, Pdo4
Neumann K, Wetton JH (1996) Highly polymorphic microsatellites in the house sparrow Passer
domesticus. Molecular Ecology, 5, 307-309.
Pdo5 & Pdo6
Griffith SC, Stewart IRK, Dawson DA, Owens IPF, Burke T (1999) Extra-pair paternity in
mainland and island populations of a socially monogamous bird, the house sparrow (Passer
domesticus): is there an "island effect"? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 68, 303-316.
Pdo7 – Pdo10
Griffith SC, Dawson DA, Burke T House sparrow (Passer domesticus) microsatellite loci.
(unpublished).
EMBL Accession numbers AF354421 - AF354424
Phtr
Fridolfsson AK, Gyllensten UB, Jakobsson S (1997) Microsatellite markers for paternity testing in
the willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus: High frequency of extra pair young in an island
population. Hereditas (Lund) 126, 127-132.
PK11 & PK12
Tanner SM, Richner H, Schuemperli D (unpublished) Microsatellite-DNA-fingerprinting in blue
tits Parus caeruleus by the plymerase chain-reaction.
EMBL Accession numbers: AF041465 and AF041466
Pocc
Bensch S, Price T, Kohn J (1997) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in a
Phylloscopus warbler. Molecular Ecology, 6, 91-92.
Ppi 1, Ppi 2, Ppi 3
Martinez JG, Soler JJ, Soler M, Møller AP, Burke T (1999) Comparative Population Structure and
Gene Flow of a brood parasite, the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), and its primary
host, the Magpie (Pica pica). Evolution, 53 (1), 269-278.
Ppi 4
Martinez JG, Dawson DA, Burke T (2000) A magpie (Pica pica) microsatellite locus (Ppi 4).
EMBL accession number AJ272377 (Unpublished)
Wbsw
McRae SB, Amos W (1999) Characterization of hypervariable microsatellites in the cooperatively
breeding white-browed sparrow weaver Plocepasser mahali. Molecular Ecology, 8,903-904.
ZL04 – ZL38 (6 loci)
Degnan SM, Robertson BC, Clegg SM, Moritz CC (1999) Microsatellite primers for studies of
gene flow and mating systems in white-eyes (Zosterops) Molecular Ecology, 8 (1), 159-160.
ZL40 – ZL59 (15 loci)
Frentiu FD, Lange CL, Burke T, Owens IPF (2003) Isolation of microsatellite loci in the Capricorn
silvereye, Zosterops laterils chlorocephalus (Aves: Zosteropidae) (submitted)
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