Research Article

Evolutionary Relationship between Two Firefly Species, Curtos costipennis and C. okinawanus (Coleoptera, Lampyridae), in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan Revealed by the Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences

Table 2

PCR primers used in this study shown in 5′–3′ direction.

GeneName (1) Sequence

COI-COIIFFMT2210FTAC CAG GAT TTG GTA TAA TTT CTC AT
FFMT3578RGGA TAG TTC ATG AGT GGA TTA CAT C
FFMT3140RATT GTT CTA TTA AAG GTG AAA TTC T

16S rDNAAAMT12948FATC CAA CAT CGA GGT CGC AAA CT(2)
FFMT13911RGTA GTT TTG TAC CTT GTG TAT CAG GGT

ITS2ITS2FTGT GAA CTG CAG GAC ACA TG
ITS2RCCT GTT CGC TCG CAG CTA CT
FFITS2FGGT GAG CTC GTC CCC GCA TCG
FFITS2RGTG TAA TAT CAT TTG ATA TCG

(1)Numerals in the name of primers for COI-COII and 16S rDNA indicate nucleotide position in the total mtDNA sequence of Drosophila yakuba [8] corresponding to the 5′ end of the primer.
(2)AAMT12948F was designed in our previous study [9].