Cross-species screening of microsatellite markers for individual identification of snow petrel Pagodroma nivea and Wilson's storm petrel Oceanites oceanicus in Antarctica

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Pande, Anant, Rawat, Nidhi, Sivakumar, Kuppusamy, Sathyakumar, Sambandam, Mathur, Vinod B., Mondol, Samrat
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Conservation Biology; Antarctic; Indian; Nivea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055593/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30042893; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5243

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 seabir...