Microsatellites for the greater glider, Petauroides volans

Although relatively abundant throughout its range in eastern Australia, the greater glider (Petauroides volans) is widely considered to be sensitive to the impacts of forest fragmentation and disturbance. Genetic analysis of meta-population structure in fragmented landscapes offers much promise in helping to understand the response of the species to such disturbance. To this end, standard size-selected library construction and screening methods were used to develop 12 greater glider dinucleotide microsatellite primer pairs that reveal substantial genetic diversity in the species. They will be used in a variety of genetic analyses to examine population dynamics in a fragmented forest system.