BMC Genomics

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Genome-based polymorphic microsatellite development and validation in the mosquito Aedes aegypti and application to population genetics in Haiti

Diane D Lovin, Katie O Washington, Becky deBruyn, Ryan R Hemme, Akio Mori, Sarah R Epstein, Brent W Harker, Thomas G Streit and David W Severson*

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Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5645 USA

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:590 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-590

Published: 9 December 2009

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Additional file 1:

Microsatellite variation in lab strains. The data provided include detailed information on all microsatellite sequences screened for copy number and polymorphism against four laboratory strains, and include primer sequences for each locus.

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Re-designed PCR primer sequences. The data provided represent the complete descriptions for the previously reported microsatellite loci for which new PCR primers were designed.

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Microsatellite polymorphisms among field populations from Haiti. The data provided represent the locus by population statistics that include allele numbers, heterozygocities, Hardy-Weinberg expectations, and allelic polymorphic information content.

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Regression analysis of pairwise FST/(1-FST) against pairwise natural logarithm-transformed distances among sample sites in Haiti. The data provided represent the comparison of microsatellite-based population structure to distances between populations in Haiti.

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GenBank accession numbers for STS sequences of microsatellite loci. The data provided represent the complete list of single copy microsatellite loci with the associated GenBank Sequence Tagged Site (STS) database accession numbers.

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