The elongate twig ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis is widely distributed in the New World ranging from southern USA to Brazil and northern Argentina. To investigate its within-colony relatedness, we developed primers for nine polymorphic microsatellite loci. High levels of within-population variation were observed, with number of alleles ranging from two to 13, and heterozygosity from 0.28 to 0.90. The loci showed no deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and no linkage disequilibrium. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Schmid, V. S., Kautz, S., Trindl, A., & Heinze, J. (2009). Polymerase chain reaction primers for polymorphic microsatellite loci in the ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Molecular Ecology Resources, 9(4), 1150–1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02590.x
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