21 Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. 22 National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia 20036, USA. * These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to E.E. (email: e.elhaik@...
Short Simple Repeats (SSR) or microsatellite markers have become a useful marker in studies of ecology, evolution, conservation, and population biology of many insect species26,27. Compared to the AFLP system, SSR markers are also sufficiently abundant to generate large numbers of markers17and have...