title: PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis).
abstract: We developed nine polymorphic microsatellite loci for evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). These loci have two to 18 alleles per locus and observed heterozygosities ranging from 0 to 0.879 in a sample of 34 individuals. In a pattern consistent with the functionally asexual reproductive system of this species, 17/36 pairs of loci revealed significant linkage disequilibrium and three loci showed significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The loci will be informative in identifying genotypes in multigenerational field studies to assess changes in genotype frequencies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bogdanowicz
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: M T J
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Harrison