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ArticleScientific reports2024

Mining expressed sequence tag (EST) microsatellite markers to assess the genetic differentiation of five Hynobius species endemic to Taiwan.

Jou-An Chen, Pei-Ju Yu, Sheng-Wun Jheng, You-Zhu Lin, Pei-Wei Sun, Wen-Ya Ko, Chun-Fu Lin, Yu-Ten Ju

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Jou-An ChenDepartment of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City, 106, Taiwan.ORCID 0009-0000-2408-4411
Pei-Ju YuDepartment of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City, 106, Taiwan.
Sheng-Wun JhengDepartment of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City, 106, Taiwan.
You-Zhu LinDepartment of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City, 106, Taiwan.
Pei-Wei SunSchool of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 116, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-4130-310X
Wen-Ya KoFaculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, 112, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1932-8703
Chun-Fu LinZoology Division, Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute, No. 1 Minsheng East Road, Jiji, Nantou, 552, Taiwan. spring@tbri.gov.tw.
Yu-Ten JuDepartment of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City, 106, Taiwan. ytju@ntu.edu.tw.ORCID 0000-0002-5120-6960

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Taiwan harbors five endemic species of salamanders (Hynobius spp.) that inhabit distinct alpine regions, contributing to population fragmentation across isolated "sky islands". With an evolutionary history spanning multiple glacial-interglacial cycles, these species represent an exceptional paradigm for exploring biogeography and speciation. However, a lack of suitable genetic markers applicable across species has limited research efforts. Thus, developing cross-amplifying markers is imperative. Expressed sequence-tag simple-sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) that amplify across divergent lineages are ideal for species identification in instances where phenotypic differentiation is challenging. Here, we report a suite of cross-amplifying EST-SSRs from the transcriptomes of the five Hynobius species that exhibit an interspecies transferability rate of 67.67%. To identify individual markers exhibiting cross-species polymorphism and to assess interspecies genetic diversity, we assayed 140 individuals from the five species across 84 sampling sites. A set of EST-SSRs with a high interspecies polymorphic information content (PIC = 0.63) effectively classified these individuals into five distinct clusters, as supported by discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC), STRUCTURE assignment tests, and Neighbor-joining trees. Moreover, pair-wise F

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Expressed Sequence TagsMicrosatellite RepeatsAnimalsCaudataGenetic VariationPhylogenyPolymorphism, GeneticTaiwanTranscriptomeEST-SSRsHynobiusMicrosatelliteTaiwanese salamanderTranscriptome

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