Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers for a facultatively eusocial sweat bee (<I>Megalopta genalis</I>)

Abstract

We developed a library of twelve polymorphic di- and tri-nucleotide microsatellite markers for Megalopta genalis, a facultatively eusocial sweat bee. We tested each locus in a panel of 23 unrelated females and found 7201320 alleles per locus. Observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.65 to 0.96 and from 0.69 to 0.95 respectively. None of the loci deviated from Hardy2013Weinberg equilibrium proportions or was found to be in gametic disequilibrium.