dbEST-derived SSR markers in sea urchin (Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus)

• DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9632-z
• Publication Date: 2008-06-28T13:13:07Z
• Authors: Xiuli Wang; Teng Feng; Lei Yang; Chengcheng Liu; Xiangying Meng; Xuemei Qiu
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 14. Life underwater

Sea urchin is an important model organism for evolutionary biology, embryology, and gene regulation study. We developed and evaluated simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of Strongylocentrotuspurpuratus and Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. Characteristics of nine EST-SSR loci were investigated using 41 Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus individuals. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to five. The observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.122 to 0.7805, while the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.4472 to 0.7696. These loci and markers will be useful for population genetics and systemic evolution among species of sea urchin.