CONTACT	Martim Melo, Centro de Investigao em Biodiversidade e Recursois Genticos, Campus Agrrio do Vairo, 4485-661 Vairo, Portugal
EMAIL	melo.martim@gmail.com
URL	http://cibio.up.pt/main.php?content=members&id=mfmelo&type=phd

DATABASE	microsatellite loci genotypes for the white-eyes (AVES, Zosteropidae) of the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, and for the Cape white-eye (Zosterops pallidus) from South Africa.
PURPOSE	database built with the objective of complementing mitochondrial sequence data in the inferrence of the phylogenetic relationships of the Gulf of Guinea white-eyes.
	
MISSING DATA	-99
	
	
COLUMN HEADINGS	
	
Species	self-explanatory
CODE	unique identifier of individual birds
SAFRING	number of ring from the SAFRING ringing scheme at the University of Cape Town: http://safring.adu.org.za
Locality	self-explanatory
Region	self-explanatory
Country	self-explanatory
Coordinates	self-explanatory
Sex	self-explanatory
ZL12	Microsatellite locus described in Zosterops lateralis. Reference: Degnan SM, Robertson BC, Clegg SB, Moritz C (1999) Microsatellite primers for studies of gene flow and mating systems in white-eyes (Zosterops). Molecular Ecology, 8, 159-160.
ZL18	Microsatellite locus described in Zosterops lateralis. Reference: Degnan SM, Robertson BC, Clegg SB, Moritz C (1999) Microsatellite primers for studies of gene flow and mating systems in white-eyes (Zosterops). Molecular Ecology, 8, 159-160.
ZL22	Microsatellite locus described in Zosterops lateralis. Reference: Degnan SM, Robertson BC, Clegg SB, Moritz C (1999) Microsatellite primers for studies of gene flow and mating systems in white-eyes (Zosterops). Molecular Ecology, 8, 159-160.
ZL44	Microsatellite locus described in Zosterops lateralis. Reference: Frentiu FD, Lange CL, Burke T, Owens IPF (2003) Isolation of microsatellite loci in the Capricorn silvereye, Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus (Aves: Zosteropidae). Molecular Ecology Notes, 3, 462-464.
ASE64	Microsatellite locus described in Acrocephalus seychelensis. Reference: Richardson DS, Jury FL, Dawson DA, et al. (2000) Fifty Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) microsatellite loci polymorphic in Sylviidae species and their cross-species amplification in other passerine birds. Molecular Ecology, 9, 2226-2231.
ASE19	Microsatellite locus described in Acrocephalus sechellensis. Reference: Richardson DS, Jury FL, Dawson DA, et al. (2000) Fifty Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) microsatellite loci polymorphic in Sylviidae species and their cross-species amplification in other passerine birds. Molecular Ecology, 9, 2226-2231.
	

	
	
	
	







































































































































































































































