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Haijun Liu1, Zhihua Yan2, Hualing Xu3
1Shenzhen Wildlife Rescue Center, Shenzhen 518040, People's Republic of China.
Premise Of The Study:
Brainea insignis (Aspleniaceae) is an endangered tree fern in China whose wild populations have been seriously damaged due to overexploitation. Expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) primers were developed to investigate its genetic diversity and provide resources for future conservation studies.
Methods And Results:
We obtained 72,897 unigenes of B. insignis using transcriptome sequencing and detected 15,006 SSRs in 12,058 unigenes. Based on these results, we designed 100 EST-SSR primer pairs and successfully amplified 52 of them in six individuals; 27 demonstrated polymorphisms after amplification against 72 individuals across three populations. Allele numbers ranged from three to 10, and the observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.105 to 1.000 and from 0.523 to 0.865, respectively, in the tested populations. Most of these primers could be successfully amplified in two other fern species (Blechnumorientale and Chieniopteris harlandii).
Conclusions:
These selected EST-SSRs are valuable for genetic diversity and conservation studies in B. insignis and other related fern species.
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