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Published on: March 5, 2017
Development and characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the semi-evergreen tree species, Ligustrum
Kosei Kodama1, Takayuki Yamada, Masayuki Maki
1Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, Japan 980-8578.
Abstract:
Ligustrum ovalifolium is a semi-evergreen tree distributed in the western part of Japan and southern Korea. This species contains an insular endemic variety, L. ovalifolium var. pacificum; this variety occurs only on the Izu Islands located south of the Japanese mainland Honshu. We isolated 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the species, and characterized them for 21 individuals from a population of L. ovalifolium. The primers developed in this study yielded an average 12.2 alleles per locus and an average expected heterozygosity of 0.78. These markers will be powerful tools for studying the genetic differentiation within the species.
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