Isolation and characterization of 11 microsatellite loci in Scotophilus kuhlii (Lesser Asiatic Yellow House Bat)

We used enriched genomic library method to isolate and characterize 11 di-nucleotide microsatellite loci in the Lesser Asiatic Yellow House Bat, Scotophilus kuhlii . The polymorphism of these loci was tested on a natural population of 36 individuals from Hainan Province, South China. All loci revealed the polymorphism ranging from 5 to 18 alleles. The observed heterozygosity values were from 0.694 to 1.000 and expected heterozygosity values were from 0.558 to 0.929. No significant linkage disequilibrium was detected between any pairs of loci. These polymorphic markers will be used to assess population structure in S. kuhlii .