Thirteen nuclear microsatellite loci for butternut (Juglans cinerea L.)
Sean Hoban1, Robert Anderson, Tim McCleary
1University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, 7899 County Road 3950, West Plains, Missouri 65775, USA, Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries Institute of Agriculture, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996-4563, USA.
Abstract:
Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) is an eastern North American forest tree severely threatened by an exotic fungal pathogen, Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum. We report here 13 nuclear microsatellites for genetic evaluation of the remaining natural populations. Summary statistics are reported for individuals from a population of butternuts in central Kentucky (N = 63). All markers were polymorphic, with an average of 13.7 alleles per locus observed. Four loci exhibited significantly fewer heterozygotes than expected under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P < 0.05).
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