Intraspecific Variation in Microsatellite Mutation Profiles in Daphnia magna.

ABSTRACT: Microsatellite loci (tandem repeats of short nucleotide motifs) are highly abundant in eukaryotic genomes and often used as genetic markers because they can exhibit variation both within and between populations. Although widely recognized for their mutability and utility, the mutation rates of microsatellites have only been empirically estimated in a few species, and have rarely been compared across genotypes and populations within a species. Here, we investigate the dynamics of microsatellite mutation over long- and short-time periods by quantifying the starting abundance and mutation rates for microsatellites for six different genotypes of Daphnia magna, an aquatic microcrustacean, collected from three populations (Finland, Germany, and Israel). Using whole-genome sequences of these six

SUBMITTER: Ho EKH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934441 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature