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Mining and characterization of sequence tagged microsatellites from the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens.
Journal of insect science (Online) - 1 Jan 2011
Sun Jing-Tao, Zhang Yan-Kai, Ge Cheng, Hong Xiao-Yue
Abstract excerpt
The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), is an important pest of rice. To better understand the migration pattern and population structure of the Chinese populations of N. lugens, we developed and characterized 12 polymorphic microsatellites from the expressed sequence tags database of N. lugens. The occurrence of these simple sequence repeats was assessed in three populations...
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