Deveploping Microsatellite Markers for Insect Population Structure: Complex Variation in a Checkerspot Butterfly

• Published in: Hereditas Vol. 123; no. 3; pp. 295 - 300
• Main Authors: Palo, Jukka, Varvio, Sirkka-Liisa, Hansk1, Ilkka, VäinÖlä, Risto
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Munksgaard International Publishers 01.04.1995

We isolated and characterized two microsatellite markers from the genome of the endangered checkerspot butterfly Melitaea cinxia L. In Finland, this species only survives on the Åland islands, where it exhibits a highly fragmented metapopulation structure on small meadows. Four alleles were observed...