Tetranucleotide microsatellites for aquila and haliaeetus eagles
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A unique community of four syntopic eagle species exists in north-central Kazakhstan. Questions about behaviour and genetics in these four species would benefit from the development of microsatellite markers. We isolated eight polymorphic microsatellite repeats (AAAG) n from the eastern imperial eagle ( Aquila heliaca ) genome using a hybridization enrichment technique. These loci revealed moderate diversity in a local population of eastern imperial eagles (observed heterozygosity 0.26–0.78), and were also polymorphic in steppe eagles ( A. nipalensis ) and white-tailed sea eagles ( Haliaeetus albicilla ). These primers may be polymorphic in other species of Aquila and Haliaeetus eagles.
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