Brief report Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the endangered Karner blue butterfly Lycaeides melissa samuelis

I Biodiversity and Ecological Processes group, Department of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales CFlO 3TL, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK