Jan 11, 2016 - genetic monitoring of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Oddmund Kleven1 & Tomas Aarvak2 & Karl-Otto Jacobsen3 &. Roar Solheim4 & Ingar ...
Eur J Wildl Res (2016) 62:247–249 DOI 10.1007/s10344-016-0986-0
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Cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci for non-invasive genetic monitoring of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) Oddmund Kleven 1 & Tomas Aarvak 2 & Karl-Otto Jacobsen 3 & Roar Solheim 4 & Ingar J. Øien 2
Received: 3 September 2015 / Revised: 28 December 2015 / Accepted: 3 January 2016 / Published online: 11 January 2016 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Abstract Genetic analysis has shown to be an important and efficient method for monitoring species, but the lack of genetic markers constrains such monitoring for many species. Here, we cross-amplified microsatellite loci in the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) using primers previously characterized in other species. Among polymorphic loci, we selected 12 loci that amplified relatively short fragments (
