Description of some mendelian-inherited RAPD markers for Heterocypris incongruens (Ostracoda)

The inheritance of 65 RAPD markers obtained from 15 arbitrary primers has b een tested in two sexual populations of the ostracod Heterocypris incongrue ns. The markers were selected using the criteria of reproducibility and ban ding-pattern clarity from the amplification products yielded by 40 primers. The expected inheritance model was inferred from the progeny banding patte rn and tested with the appropriate statistics. All 65 markers followed a Me ndelian pattern of inheritance and indicated that the Spanish and the Itali an populations studied are genetically different.