Ten novel microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines. The soybean aphid was recently introduced into North America where it has become a serious pest of soybeans. This invasive pest has rapidly spread throughout the midwestern United States and southern Canada since 2000. The isolated loci were polymorphic, with two to 18 alleles in 20 individuals from a single population in Korea. The analyses revealed that 19 individuals had different multilocus genotypes, showing expected heterozygosity values ranging from 0.180 to 0.891. We report the development of microsatellite markers for A. glycines potentially suitable for further studies of population structure, dispersal, and host alternation.

• Hyojoong Kim(Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University)
• Min-Young Kim(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
• Kim A. Hoelmer(United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)
• Seunghwan Lee(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)