A review of molecular markers for the research of subterranean rodents dispersal

Dispersal is one of the fundamental behavior of animal life history and affects the survival, reproduction, growth of individuals as well as the population dynamics, distribution, and genetic structure. With the development of molecular biology, the molecular marker technologies have become a useful tool to study the dispersal of subterranean rodents. The paper summarized the research progress of subterranean rodents’ dispersal, involving microsatellites markers, DNA fingerprinting, mitochondrial D-loop sequences. Meanwhile, we also prospect the dispersal study of plateau zokor using microsatellite technique.