Development of Microsatellite Markers in the Hexaploid Aquatic Macrophyte, Myriophyllum spicatum (Haloragaceae)

Autor: Zhi-Gang Wu, Dan Yu, Xin-Wei Xu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Applications in Plant Sciences, Vol 1, Iss 2, p 1200230 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2168-0450
DOI: 10.3732/apps.1200230
Popis: Premise of the study: We developed microsatellite primers to investigate genetic diversity and population genetic structure of the cosmopolitan submerged plant Myriophyllum spicatum. Methods and Results: Twenty microsatellite loci were identified in M. spicatum using the microsatellite-enriched library method. The numbers of alleles per locus ranged from one to 13, and the expected heterozygosity varied from 0 to 0.873 with a mean of 0.504 in two Chinese populations of M. spicatum. All of the loci were also found to be amplifiable in the related species M. verticillatum and M. sibiricum. Conclusions: The results indicate that these markers will be significant for studies of population genetic structure and evolutionary history of M. spicatum as well as some of its related species.
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