Research Article

Microsatellites Cross-Species Amplification across Some African Cichlids

Table 3

Results of cross-species amplification performed over the 32 tested microsatellite loci on the 15 African cichlid species studied, including amplification rate, polymorphism rate, and mean number of alleles per locus, estimated per genus and tribe.

GroupsN speciesAmplification ratePolymorphism (P95)Mean allele number per locus% shared alleles per
Per groupPer species

O. niloticus97%97%4.3

Oreochromis spp.*688%76%17.83.737%
Sarotherodon spp. 286%85%6.43.39.2%
Tilapia spp. 367%59%62.419.7%
Tilapiines*1182%74%24.33.720.5%
non-Tilapiines334%36%3.41.62.3%
Haplochromines138%50%1.6
Chromidotilapines147%20%1.4
Hemichromines119%50%2.3

Total*72%70%25.73.25.3%

*Excluding O. niloticus.