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- Title
Isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci from the endangered plant species Hypochaeris salzmanniana (Asteraceae).
- Authors
Ruas, Claudete F.; Nakayama, Thiago J.; M. Á. Ortiz; Kuroki, Mayra A.; Stuessy, Tod F.; Tremetsberger, Karin; Ruas, Eduardo A.; de Oliveira Santos, Melissa; Talavera, Salvador; Ruas, Paulo M.
- Abstract
We report the isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci for Hypochaeris salzmanniana, an endangered species endemic to the southwestern coast of Spain and the Atlantic coast of Morocco. A total of 32 alleles were detected across a sample of 45 individuals, with an average number of 4.0 alleles per locus. The average polymorphic information content (PIC) was 0.533 and the observed (HO) and expected (HE) heterozygosity values varied from 0.022 to 0.978 and from 0.434 to 0.759, respectively. Five loci exhibited significant deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P ≤ 0.001) and three pairs of loci showed significant linkage disequilibrium (P ≤ 0.01). The eight loci were tested for transferability in three others species (H. arachnoidea, H. glabra, and H. radicata) belonging to the same section of H. salzmanniana. With the exception of locus Hsalz7, all loci successfully amplified in the three species. These preliminary data confirm the usefulness of microsatellite markers for assessing the ecology and genetic structure of H. salzmanniana and to understand the evolution of species within the section Hypochaeris.
- Subjects
SPAIN; ASTERACEAE; ENDANGERED species; HYPOCHAERIS; WILDLIFE conservation; GENETIC carriers; GENETIC markers; GENETIC polymorphisms; COASTS
- Publication
Conservation Genetics, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 5, p1413
- ISSN
1566-0621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10592-008-9749-0