M. O'Connell

TL;DR: The isolation and application of microsatellites to research fields as diverse as population genetics, parentage analyses and genome mapping are reviewed and potential problems associated with investigating variation at microsatellite loci are proposed.

TL;DR: Two quantitative trait loci (QTL) were mapped by detecting a significant association between variance in upper temperature tolerance and alleles at the microsatellite loci Omy325UoG and Ssa14DU suggesting that the effects of the QTL are additive.

TL;DR: Comparison with allozyme and mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) datasets from the same samples suggests that microsatellites may detect structuring at a finer scale, but are less informative at larger scales of divergence.

TL;DR: Heterozygosity and allele number values, at each locus for each population, were used to test two alternative mutation models, the infinite allele model (IAM) and the stepwise mutation model (SMM).

TL;DR: Five highly variable microsatellite loci were used to investigate population structuring in Pacific herring Clupea pallasi collected from Kodiak Island, two sites in the Bering Sea and four sites within Prince William Sound, Alaska suggesting that the samples investigated were genetically distinct from each other.