Development of 17 Novel Cross-Species Microsatellite Markers for Dabry's Sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus) from Chinese Sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) via Next-Generation Sequencing.

In this study, we report 17 novel cross-species microsatellite markers for Dabry's sturgeon via nextgeneration sequencing from Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis). The 17 microsatellites were polymorphic with 3 to 6 alleles per locus and the total number of alleles is 80. The mean expected heterozygosity (HE, 0.506 to 0.781), observed heterozygosity (HO, 0.542 to 1), Hardy-Weinberg departure value (d, -0.042 to 0.427), polymorphic information content (PIC, 0.482 to 0.753) and the Shannon- Wiener Diversity Indices (H', 0.827 to 1.565) of all the 17 polymorphic loci indicated a high level of informativeness. Those markers will be useful tool to study the genetic diversity of Dabry's sturgeon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]