Genetic analysis of animals involved in captive breeding and reintroduction programmes
can provide valuable information to aid in maintaining wild type genotypes and genetic …

Heterologous primers allow the amplification of conserved microsatellites across related
species. For instance, human microsatellites are widely applied to various species of non …

The island of Newfoundland, the first of England's overseas colonies, was settled from the
17th century onward by restricted numbers of English, Irish, and French immigrants, in small …

Mandrill is a vulnerable Old World primate living in the rain-forests of central Africa. This
species is currently facing two major human encroachments: habitat destruction and bush …

Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) is an endangered arboreal macropodid
endemic to the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea (PNG). We developed 5 microsatellite …

Background Mauritian cynomolgus macaques have greatly restricted genetic diversity in the
MHC region compared to other non‐human primates; however, the frequency of common …

Eleven high polymorphic across-species loci were used to test the usefulness in the
individual identification and parentage determination of black muntjac and to detect the …

The tammar wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii) is one of the most intensively studied of all
macropodids and was the first Australasian marsupial to have its genome sequenced …

Nine polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for a nationally endangered
marsupial, the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) using a next generation …

Dibblers are carnivorous marsupials that were considered extinct for over 60 years. They
now persist in small, highly fragmented populations. In this work we describe the …