“…Microsatellite markers are widely used in population differentiation, population genetics, linkage analyses, and evolutionary studies (Li, 2006). Microsatellite markers in other shrimps have been reported, including Litopenaeus vannamei (Garcla and Alcivar-Warren, 1996), Penaeus monodon (Xu et al, 2001), F. chinensis (Meng et al, 2009), and Macrobrachium nipponense (Ma et al, 2010). To the best of our knowledge, there are a few reports referring F. penicillatus, while major studies focusing on the cultural ecology, basic biology, as well as breeding (Zhang et al, 2010).…”