Sequence analysis of 78 alleles of a microsatellite locus was resolved at various taxonomic levels among salmonid fishes to test for congruence between size and sequence information. Allelic variability of this locus involved changes in number of dinucleotide repeats as expected for microsatellite loci. However, additional mutational events involving large indels and base substitutions also occ...

Suggested molecular mechanisms for the generation of new tandem repeats of simple sequences indicate that the microsatellite loci evolve via some of forward-backward mutation. We provide a mathematical basis for suggesting a measure of genetic distance between populations based on microsatellite variation. Our results indicate that such a genetic distance measure can remain proportional to the ...

Fenneropenaeus penicillatus, with high protein and low fat, is a commercially important aquatic product in China. Microsatellite loci were developed according to the protocol of fast isolation by amplified fragment length polymorphism of sequences containing repeats. Eight new polymorphic microsatellite markers for F. penicillatus were identified, and 32 wild individuals were used to evaluate t...

Understanding how microsatellites are distributed in eukaryotic genomes is important to clarify the differential abundance of these repeats under an evolutionary scenario. We have concatenated data from 3165 DNA sequences of 326 Bivalvia species to search for taxonomic patterns of microsatellite distribution in genomic regions of markedly different functionality. Some microsatellite motifs in b...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed in Vinca minor (Apocynaceae) to evaluate the level of clonality, population structure, and genetic diversity of the species within its native and introduced range. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 1371 microsatellites were found in 43,565 reads from 454 pyrosequencing of genomic V. minor DNA. Additional microsatellite loci w...

The rabbitfish Siganus fuscescens is an economically valuable species that is widely distributed throughout the estuaries, intertidal, and offshore coasts of the Indo-Pacific and eastern Mediterranean. Ten novel microsatellite loci from the genome of S. fuscescens were developed using the fast isolation protocol with amplified fragment length polymorphism of sequences containing repeats. Polymo...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed to assess polymorphism and level of genetic diversity in four Mexican populations of the neotropical vine Dalechampia scandens (Euphorbiaceae). • METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-seven microsatellite markers representing bi-, tri-, tetra-, and pentanucleotide microsatellite repeats were developed. In total, 166 alleles were id...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Pinus wangii is an endemic and endangered species in southwestern China, and microsatellite primers were developed to characterize its genetic diversity and population structure. • METHODS AND RESULTS Using the Fast Isolation by AFLP of Sequences COntaining repeats (FIASCO) protocol, nine sets of microsatellite primers were developed in P. wangii. One popula...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed for silver wattle, Acacia dealbata (Fabaceae), which is both an ornamental and an invasive weed species. It is native to southeastern Australia and invasive in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. METHODS AND RESULTS The pyrosequencing of a microsatellite-enriched genomic DNA library of A. dealbata produced 33,290 sequences and all...