Publications [#229722] of Mohamed A. Noor
search www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.Papers Published
- Forbes, AA; Powell, THQ; Lobo, NF; Noor, MAF; Feder, JL, PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Polymorphic microsatellite loci for Diachasma alloeum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).,
Molecular ecology resources, vol. 8 no. 2
(March, 2008),
pp. 373-376 [doi] .
(last updated on 2024/11/03)Abstract:
Here, we report the isolation of 21 novel primers for amplification of microsatellite loci in Diachasma alloeum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Diachasma alloeum is a larval parasitoid of the apple maggot fly (Rhagoletis pomonella), which is an economically significant agricultural pest species and a textbook example of sympatric speciation via host-plant shifting. These microsatellite markers will prove useful both for assessing genetic relationships between different host-associated populations of D. alloeum, as well as for future R. pomonella biological control programmes. We also report the cross-species amplification of several loci for Diachasmimorpha mellea and Diachasma ferrugineum, parasitoids of R. pomonella and R. cingulata, respectively.