| characterization and isolation of novel microsatellites from the drosophila dunni subgroup. | we have isolated and characterized 77 novel microsatellites from two species, drosophila dunni and drosophila nigrodunni, which are closely related caribbean-island endemics from the drosophila cardini species group. these species are very distantly related to all other drosophila from which microsatellites have previously been characterized. we find that the average length of microsatellites isolated in these species is quite small, with an overall mean length of 9.8 repeat units for dinucleoti ... | 2002 | 12688656 |