Research article
Genetic diversity and demographic instability in Riftia pachyptila tubeworms from eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents
1 USGS-Leetown Science Center, Aquatic Ecology Branch, Kearneysville, WV, USA
2 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
3 Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa, Kāne`ohe, HI, USA
4 Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:96 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-96
Published: 13 April 2011Additional files
Additional file 1:
Non-degenerate and internal primer pairs (indicated with *) developed for population screening of Riftia pachyptila. GenBank accession numbers are indicated along with the PCR program (see text for details). A table of DNA primer pairs used in screening nuclear and mitochondrial genes in R. pachyptila.
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Allelic diversity in Riftia pachyptila. A table of allelic frequencies for nuclear and mitochondrial genes in R. pachyptila. DNA haplotypes for alleles are identified by their polymorphic sites.
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