Brief report - Isolation and cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)

Microsatellites are superior compared to other geneti-cal markers for parentage determination, because they can be analysed from tiny and partially degraded DNA-samples extracted from e.g. hairs or bird feath-ers (ELLEGREN 1992). However, bird genomes con-tain relatively few microsatellite loci (LONGMIRE et al. 1999; PRIMMER et al. 1997b). It is therefore a tedious process to isolate a set of markers that is sufficient for conclusive parentage analyses. Here we report on nine microsatellite markers that are polymorphic in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus), a resident family dwelling species occurring throughout the Eurasian taiga (HELLE and LILLANDT 1997). The markers were found using two methods; (1) isolating new mi-crosatellite sequences from a size-selected Siberian ja

Eliminating Branches using a Superoptimizer and the GNU C Compiler

this paper uses the RS/6000 for all its examples, the techniques described here are applicable to most machine

Big Data and Cloud Computing for Development : Lessons from Key Industries and Economies in the Global South

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