Data from: Cross-species screening of microsatellite markers for individual identification of snow petrel Pagodroma nivea and Wilson’s storm petrel Oceanites oceanicus in Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Pande, Anant, Rawat, Nidhi, Sivakumar, Kuppusamy, Sathyakumar, Sambandam, Mathur, Vinod B., Mondol, Samrat
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: allele size; Pagodroma nivea; Oceanites oceanicus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Indian; Nivea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.57027hc; https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.57027hc

Seabirds are important indicators of marine ecosystem health. Species within the order Procellariiformes are the most abundant seabird species group distributed from warm tropical to cold temperate regions including Antarctica. There is a paucity of information on basic biology of the pelagic seabird species nesting on the Antarctic continents, and long-term studies are required to gather data on their population demography, genetics and other ecological parameters. Under the ‘Biology and Environmental Sciences’ component of the Indian Antarctic programme, long-term monitoring of Antarctic biodiversity is being conducted. In this paper, we describe results of cross-species screening of a panel of 12 and 10 microsatellite markers in two relatively little studied seabird species in Antarctica, the snow petrel Pagodroma nivea and the Wilson's storm petrel Oceanites oceanicus, respectively. These loci showed high amplification success and moderate levels of polymorphism in snow petrel (mean no. of alleles 7.08 ± ... : Pande et al_2018_microsatelliteGenotype data generated from cross-species microsatellite markers for Snow Petrel and Wilson's Storm Petrel. ...