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1 Polymorphic microsatellite markers isolated from a southern European population of

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4 David Canal1,José A. Dávila2, Pedro J. G. de Nova2, and Jaime Potti1

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7 1Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Américo

8 Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain

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10 2Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM),

11 Ronda de Toledo s/n 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain

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14 Address correspondence to David Canal.

15 1Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Américo

16 Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain

17 Telephone number: +34954466700 ext 1406.

18 E-mail: davidcanal@ebd.csic.es

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20 Running title: New microsatellites for the pied flycatcher

21 Keywords: Ficedula hypoleuca iberiae, microsatellites, molecular marker, primers.

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25 Abstract

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27 Nine polymorphic microsatellite loci for the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca),

28 from a wild population in Spain are isolated and their variability described on 70

29 individuals. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 6 to 41 and observed

30 heterozygosity ranged from 0.75 to 0.98. These markers are being used to study mating

31 strategies in Ficedula hypoleuca iberiae.

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49 Introduction

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51 Three subspecies are currently recognized for the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca): F.

52 h. hypoleuca breeding from southern France to northern Europe, F. h. sibirica distributed

53 across southwest Siberia and F. h. iberiae in the Iberian Peninsula (Sætre et al. 2001,

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55 Over time, pied flycatcher subspecies have been exposed to different pressures and

56 responded in different ways, diverging phenotypically and genetically due to selection,

57 genetic drift and mutation. Thus, the three subspecies present differences in traits as

58 plumage colour, size of the forehead patch (Lundberg and Alatalo 1992) or song (Haavie et

59 al. 2004) whereas at the genetic level Spanish pied flycatchers differ significantly from

60 Czech and Norwegian ones at both microsatellite loci and mtDNA sequences (Haavie et al.

61 2000). Therefore, as a consequence of evolutionary processes members of different

62 populations, subspecies or species will show higher degrees of genetic divergence with

63 increasing time since isolation.

64 In a recent study of paternity in Spanish pied flycatchers (Canal et al. submitted)

65 most of the six microsatellites already published by Scandinavian researchers (Ellegren

66 1992, Primmer et al. 1996) showed some type of problem. Null alleles were detected in

67 FhU1 and FhU3 whereas FhU4 showed weak polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

68 amplifications. Regarding FhU5 and FhU6, PCR amplified a high number of unspecific

69 bands, preventing their optimization. In addition, FhU1, FhU2, and FhU3 exhibited

70 moderate levels of polymorphism (3, 6, and 7 alleles in 80 individuals, respectively).

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73 (F. h. hypoleuca) population has been published (Leder et al. 2008). Here we describe the

74 development and optimization of a new set of highly variable, polymorphic microsatellite

75 DNA loci isolated from a population of F. h. iberiae.

76 Blood samples were collected from a wild population in La Hiruela (central Spain)

77 and stored at room temperature in 100% ethanol. Genomic DNA was extracted from blood

78 by a standard phenol-chloroform method (Sambrook et al. 1989). An enriched

79 microsatellite genomic library was constructed following procedures modified from

80 Hamilton et al. (1999). Briefly, 50 ug of DNA were digested with 100 U each of NheI,

81 BsuRI (HaeIII) and RsaI (Fermentas). Restriction fragments of 300 – 1000 base pairs were

82 excised from agarose gel, blunt ended, dephosphorylated and ligated to SNX linkers.

83 Microsatellite enrichment was carried out by hybridization capture of repeat sequences

84 using biotinylated (CAT)8, (GAT)8, (GACA)7, (GATA)7, (TCCA)7 and (TGGA)7

85 oligonucleotides and streptavidin-coated magnetic beads (Dynabeads M-280 Streptavidin,

86 Invitrogen) and subsequently amplified by PCR with SNX-F primer. Amplified DNA was

87 ligated into the XbaI site of pUC19 (Fermentas) and plasmid constructs were used to

88 electroporate ElectroTen-Blue electroporation-competent Escherichia coli cells

89 (Stratagene). Positive recombinants were replated on LB agar medium and lifted onto nylon

90 membranes, probed with DIG-labelled microsatellite motives used in enrichment. Seventy

91 positive clones were sequenced in ABI 3130xl Sequencer (Applied Biosystems).

92 Sequences were edited in BIOEDIT 7.0.5.2 (Hall 1999) and primers for those

93 sequences containing microsatellites were designed by eye. PCRs were performed in 10-µ L

94 reaction volumes (BIOTOOLS: 1x standard reaction buffer, 2.0 mM MgCl2, 0.2 mM of

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97 followed by 35 cycles of 30 s at 94°C, 30 s at annealing temperature (Table 1) and 30 s at

98 72°C, plus a final extension of 10 min at 72°C. One primer of each pair that reliably

99 amplified a polymorphic locus was tagged with VIC, FAM, PET or NED fluorescent labels

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(Applied Biosystems). Loci from seventy individuals were genotyped on ABI PRISM

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3130xl sequencer (Applied Biosystems). Allele sizes were determined with Genescan 600-

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LIZ internal size standard and Genemapper 4.0 software (Applied Biosystems).

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Observed and expected heterozygosities were calculated using ARLEQUIN

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(Excoffier et al. 2005), which was also used to analyse linkage disequilibrium and assess

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the significance of deviations from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (100 000 Markov chains).

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Nine loci remained after others were discarded because of sequence redundancy,

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lack of microsatellite repeat, insufficient flanking sequence for primer design,

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monomorphism or non-specific PCR products. The nine loci were highly variable: all

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except one had 10 or more alleles per locus and, remarkably, two of them displayed more

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than 40 alleles per locus. Observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.75 to 0.98. All loci

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conformed to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and no pairs of loci showed significant linkage

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disequilibrium (Table 1).

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Microsatellites here developed have been successful in revealing high rates of extra-

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pair paternity in relation to patterns of sexual selection on male secondary sex traits in our

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study population (Canal et al., submitted). Overall, these markers increase genetic resources

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for the species and, due to their high variability, are a useful tool for a wide variety of

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purposes, as studies of genetic diversity, breeding strategies or population structure.

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Acknowledgements

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Funded by project PAC05-006-1 (to JAD). DC was supported by a grant from Ministerio

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1 Table 1 Summary data for nine microsatellite loci isolated from the pied flycatcher with primer sequences, number of individuals

2 genotyped (N), annealing temperature in PCR (Ta), repeat motif of the cloned microsatellite, GenBank Accession number, number of

3 alleles (A.), size range (base pairs) of observed alleles, observed heterozygosity (HO), expected heterozygosity (HE) and P value of the

4 test to detect significant departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. N (NED), F (FAM), V (VIC) and P (PET) indicate the

5 fluorescent label used. Polymorphism data are based on adults from a single population in central Spain.

|Locus |Primer sequence (5'-3') |N |Ta (ºC) |Repeat motif |GenBank no. |A |Size range |HO |HE |P | | |Fhy 1-25 |FF: TGGCAGGAGTAACCCAGATG |70 |54 |(CTGT)10 |FJ389732 |6* |136 - 169 |0.75 |0.70 |0.96 | | |

Fhy 3-60 |R: CAAACATCCACACCTGACTG FP: TTCTTTACGGCTCTGCATTG |

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(CCAT)16 |

FJ389733 |

19* |

181 - 273 |

0.98 |

0.92 |

0.99 | | |

Fhy 3-85 |R: CAGGAAAGTGCCCAGCAATC

FV: GTGACAACTGAGCAAGAATTCC |

70 |

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(GGAT)14 |

FJ389734 |

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219 - 315 |

0.92 |

0.86 |

0.66 | | |

Fhy 4-95 |R: TGCTGCTCTCAGATGGTTCTTC FN: ATGTGGACACAAGAACATGG |

70 |

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(GGAT)15 |

FJ389735 |

14 |

152 - 216 |

0.81 |

0.90 |

0.25 | | |

Fhy 5-75 |R: TGTGTATGTGTCCATCTCAG

FF: ACTAGTTCCGGCAGGGTATCCA |

70 |

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(CCAT)12 |

FJ389736 |

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134 - 278 |

0.85 |

0.93 |

0.49 | | |

Fhy 6-126 |R: CAATGTCCTGCACATGAAATGG FF: GTTTTCTGTCTCCCTCAGGAC |

70 |

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(TATC)43 |

FJ389737 |

34* |

137 - 316 |

0.98 |

0.96 |

0.58 | | |

Fhy 9-98 |R: GGGTGTGACAAGTGTGTACAT FN: AGCCCCAGACATTGAGATG |

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(CAT)16 |

FJ389738 |

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121 - 166 |

0.93 |

0.91 |

0.21 | | |

Fhy 14-41 |R: TGATGCATGCCAGTGAATC

FP: GATCACAAGTTGGACTTGATG |

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(TATC)16 |

FJ389739 |

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184 - 228 |

0.84 |

0.87 |

0.59 | | |

Fhy B4-7 |R: CACCACATCTATTGCTGACAG FN: TGCAGGGATTCAGCAGGACT |

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(TGA)97 |

FJ389740 |

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295 - 667 |

0.93 |

0.96 |

0.25 | | | |R: CCAATAACTGCAAGCACTGG | | | | | | | | | | |6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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1 * These loci have been used in a recent study of paternity (Canal et al., sumbited). In this study, the number of alleles at F1-25, F3-60

2 and f6-126 loci increased to 7, 21 and 42, respectively, as a result of a larger genotyped sample size (746 individuals).

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Therefore, development of additional, more informative microsatellite markers is required

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even in this relatively well-studied species. Recently, a new set of markers from a Finnish

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each dNTP and 0.5 U Taq Polymerase) using 0.5 µ M of each primer and containing 50 ng

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of DNA as template. PCR amplifications consisted of initial denaturation (2 min at 94°C)

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