Microsatellite Identification in Microsatellite Identification in the Thick-billed Parrot ( the Thick-billed Parrot ( Rhynchopsitta Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha pachyrhyncha ) ) By: By: Daniel Acosta Daniel Acosta Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Research Scholar Research Scholar Dr. Wright’s Lab Dr. Wright’s Lab Department of Biology Department of Biology
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Microsatellite Identification in the Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) By: Daniel Acosta Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Research Scholar.
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Microsatellite Identification in the Thick-Microsatellite Identification in the Thick-billed Parrot (billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta Rhynchopsitta
pachyrhynchapachyrhyncha)) By: By:
Daniel Acosta Daniel Acosta Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Research Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Research
ScholarScholar
Dr. Wright’s LabDr. Wright’s LabDepartment of BiologyDepartment of Biology
Thick-billed Parrot
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN 2007)
• World Parrot Trust
• Historic range: Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico (Snyder et. al., 1999)
• Habitat degradation and fragmentation from logging
Range
Genetic Variation• High degree of genetic variation to reduce
the impact of founder effect, which may lead to genetic differentiation
• To adapt to a changing environment and to avoid reduced reproductive fitness.
• Importance to any translocation.
Microsatellites
• Microsatellites are simple sequence repeats (1-6) base pairs long: e.g. GTGTGTGTGTGT or ACGACGACGACGACGACGACG found in the genome of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms
• Found in coding and non-coding regions
• They have a high mutation rate and high variability in natural populations.
• High degree of polymorphism
• All of these characteristics makes microsatellites a class of genetic marker that is highly useful to assess genetic variation.
• Proportion of loci polymorphic: Number of polymorphic loci / total number of loci sampled
• We can also calculate allelic diversity: If we have sampled 6 loci and the diversity is as follows (1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3) Allelic diversity=(1+3+3+2+2+1) / 6 = 2
• These calculations tell us a great deal about the genetic variation of the target population
Progress and Future Goals
• Up to date: 3 primers we designed and 4 designed for other species.
• These primers have been optimized for [Mg] and annealing temperature.
• We now propose to use these primers to assess the genetic variation not only of the wild population, but of the captive population.
• Compare wild population to captive population
Acknowledgements
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NMSU Research Program • Dr. Timothy Wright • Ph. D Student Erin Schirtzinger• Ph. D Student Swati Mukherjee• Ph. D Student Alejandro Salinas• Nadine Lamberski @ San Diego Zoo• Kari L. Schmidt. @ American Museum of Natural History