Pastures have over the years been selected for important traits and their breeding has resulted in some high yielding forage grasses with great adaptive population expansion traits. The research was carried out to study genetic diversity of nine Andropogon spp. sourced from Remo zone Ogun State using four microsatellite markers (Phil227562, Xcup63, CTM59, Xcup14). Genomic DNA extracted succulen...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite loci were developed for the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria sp. A to investigate the population genetic structure of this fungal symbiont across its fragmented distribution in southeastern Australia. • METHODS AND RESULTS A partial genome sequence from an individual collection of Laccaria sp. A was obtained by 454 genome sequencing. Eight micr...

Discrete and commercially important patches of weathervane scallops ( Patinopecten caurinus ) are found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Little is known about weathervane scallop life history and population structure, but the species is vulnerable to overexploitation because of their large size and long lifespan. Here we describe 16 polymorphic microsatellite loci developed to study the relat...

retrotransposons (rtns) constitute informative molecular markers for plant species because of their ability to integrate into a multitude of loci throughout the genome and thereby generate insertional polymorphisms between individuals. in the present study, rtn-based molecular markers, irap (inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphism) and remap (retrotransposon-microsatellite amplified polymo...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Primers for 31 microsatellite-containing loci were developed for the threatened orchid Platanthera praeclara to enable characterization of the population genetics of this tallgrass prairie native. • METHODS AND RESULTS Sixteen polymorphic microsatellite loci were identified from four populations. Six of these loci were not in linkage disequilibrium. The aver...

The ant genus Myrmecia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is endemic to Australia and New Caledonia, and has retained many biological traits that are considered to be basal in the family Formicidae. Here, a set of 16 dinucleotide microsatellite loci were studied that are polymorphic in at least one of the two species of the genus: the giant bulldog ant, M. brevinoda Forel, and the jumper ant, ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Twenty-seven nuclear microsatellite markers were developed for the mangrove fern, Acrostichum aureum (Pteridaceae), to investigate the genetic structure and demographic history of the only pantropical mangrove plant. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty-six A. aureum individuals from three populations were sampled and genotyped to characterize the 27 loci. The number of alleles and ...

Baru tree (Dipteryx alata) is an arboreal, fruitful plant native to the Cerrado biome with important socioeconomic impact. Populations of this species are a good model study anthropogenic disturbances on through genetic information. In study, we developed seven new polymorphic microsatellite markers for D. alata, using enriched genomic library. We performed loci characterization in three popula...

New nuclear microsatellite markers (SSRs) were developed for Aesculus hippocastanum, a relict tree species from the Balkan Peninsula. The development of microsatellites was done using Illumina MiSeq PE300 platform. Out set 500 SSRs designed, subset 13 loci tested 290 individ­uals seven natural populations. Twelve species-specific polymorphic. number alleles per locus ranged 2 to 17 and expected...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed and used to genotype individuals of Gentianella praecox subsp. bohemica (Gentianaceae), a highly protected taxon in Europe, to study the genetic structure of the remaining populations. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-eight primer pairs were successfully amplified; of these, 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed using a...