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- - The study focuses on 15 microsatellite loci specific to the white-ruffed manakin bird, which inhabits Neotropical forests in parts of Central and South America.
- - These genetic markers were created to analyze population structure, genetic diversity, and gene flow in fragmented forest ecosystems.
- - Testing involved 159 individuals from Costa Rica, revealing 4 to 23 alleles per locus and observed heterozygosities between 0.23 and 0.93, indicating varied genetic diversity.
Article Abstract
We describe 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the white-ruffed manakin Corapipo altera, a common understory bird of Neotropical lowland and montane evergreen forests from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. These markers were developed in order to assess population structure and genetic diversity in a fragmented landscape, and to study gene flow between forest fragments. Primers were tested on a population of 159 individuals from the Coto Brus region of southwestern Costa Rica. We found between four and 23 alleles per locus, and observed heterozygosities ranging from 0.23 to 0.93.
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