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A multiplex marker set for microsatellite typing and sexing of sooty terns Onychoprion fuscatus

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, December 2017
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Title
A multiplex marker set for microsatellite typing and sexing of sooty terns Onychoprion fuscatus
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BMC Research Notes, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-3084-9
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Lucy J. H. Garrett, Deborah A. Dawson, Gavin J. Horsburgh, S. James Reynolds

Abstract

Seabirds have suffered dramatic population declines in recent decades with one such species being the sooty tern Onychoprion fuscatus. An urgent call to re-assess their conservation status has been made given that some populations, such as the one on Ascension Island, South Atlantic, have declined by over 80% in three generations. Little is known about their population genetics, which would aid conservation management through understanding ecological processes and vulnerability to environmental change. We developed a multiplex microsatellite marker set for sooty terns including sex-typing markers to assist population genetics studies. Fifty microsatellite loci were isolated and tested in 23 individuals from Ascension Island. Thirty-one were polymorphic and displayed between 4 and 20 alleles. Three loci were Z-linked and two autosomal loci deviated from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The remaining 26 autosomal loci together with three sex-typing makers were optimised in seven polymerase chain reaction plexes. These 26 highly polymorphic markers will be useful for understanding genetic structure of the Ascension Island population and the species as a whole. Combining these with recently developed microsatellite markers isolated from Indian Ocean birds will allow for assessment of global population structure and genetic diversity.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 43%
Student > Master 3 21%
Unspecified 1 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Researcher 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 21%
Environmental Science 2 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 7%
Unspecified 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 14%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 March 2019.
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#14,087,536
of 23,012,811 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,871
of 4,283 outputs
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#231,228
of 440,645 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#77
of 189 outputs
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