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Table 13.2: Selected Sequences and Databases Relevant to Insect Molecular Ecology.
Primer or database type
Reference(s)
a
Insect genomes
Bombyx mori
SilkBase
Mita et al. 2004
Drosophila
melanogaster
FlyBase
http://lybase.org/
,
Gilbert 2002,
Wilson et al. 2008
Anopheles gambiae
AnoBase
, The
Anopheles
database
VectorBase:
Anopheles
Apis mellifera
Expressed sequence tags BeeBase
Whitfield et al. 2002
Hymenoptera genomes
Microarrays
Overview of methods and data analysis
Quackenbush 2001; Gibson 2002;
Kerr 2001a,b
;
www.gene-chips.com
Microsatellites
Overview of methods and analysis
Estoup and Angers 1998, Toth et al.
2000, Zane et al. 2002
InSatDb
Archak et al. 2007
Unigene Microsatellite DB
veebyasg.ubfi.
Microsatellite DB of fully sequenced insect
genomes
Nucleic Acids Res
. annual updates
Mitochondrial DNA
MitBASE
Attimonelli et al. 2000
AMmtDB
Lanave et al. 2002
Variable number of tandem repeats in
mt DNA
Lunt et al. 1998
PCR of long sections in 14 orders
Roehrdanz and DeGrugillier 1998
12 S rRNA
Hickson et al. 1996
PCR primers
Simon et al. 1994
Alignments of mitochondria from 13
insect orders
Buckley et al. 2000
Analysis of 12 species in four orders
Chandra et al. 2006
Long-PCR primers for entire mt genomes
Grandebarau et al. 2005
IMGD: comparative database of 25,747
insect mt genomes
Lee et al. 2009
RAPD-PCR
Effective 10-mer primers in insects reviewed
Hadrys et al. 1992, Haymer 1994
Ribosomal
5 S rRNA
5 S rRNA
Cullings and Vogler 1998, Szymanski
et al. 2002
rRNA
Small subunit rRNA
Wuyts et al. 2002
Single nucleotide
polymorphisms
(SNPs)
Variation in protein-coding and RNA-
coding genes
Black and Vontas 2007, Coates et al.
2011
a
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