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A Fast Silver Staining Protocol Enabling Simple and Efficient Detection of SSR Markers using a Non-denaturing Polyacrylamide Gel
Published on: April 20, 2018
[Strategies for development of SSR molecular markers]
1National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210 095, China. zengcui_zhang@hotmail.com
Abstract:
SSR molecular markers have been used widely in many genetic studies and become one of the most popular molecular markers due to their high polymorphism, abundant informativeness, convenience of assay by PCR and distribution throughout the genome. The major drawback of SSR molecular markers is that their primers need to be designed according to the isolated sequence flanking the SSR from species that are being examined for the first time. The aim of the present paper is to review the several representative methods of SSR isolation described in the literature and provide useful information in making appropriate choices among the large number of currently available options.
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