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CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROSATELLITE LOCI IN THE EUROPEAN GREEN CRAB (CARCINUS MAENAS)
Citation:
TEPOLT, C., M. J. BAGLEY, J. B. GELLER, AND M. J. BLUM. CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROSATELLITE LOCI IN THE EUROPEAN GREEN CRAB (CARCINUS MAENAS). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY NOTES. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 6:343-345, (2006).
Impact/Purpose:
The goals of this research are to: (1) determine how landscape characteristics relate to the spread of red shiner through southeastern river systems, (2) identify behavioral and genetic mechanisms underlying interspecific hybridization, and (3) develop models to assess the vulnerability of tributary streams to invasion by red shiner.
Description:
Carcinus maenas (Decapoda: Portunidae) has proven a highly successful invasive marine species whose potential economic and ecological impacts are of great concern worldwide. Here, we characterize fourteen polymorphic microsatellite loci in C. maenas and its sister species C. Aestuarii. These markers will prove useful for fine-scale genetic analyses of native and introduced populations, for assessment of the sources and routes of invasion, and for evaluation of post-invasion population dynamics.