title: Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite markers for the fungal banana pathogen Mycosphaerella fijiensis.
abstract: Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for Mycosphaerella fijiensis, a fungus causing the black sigatoka disease in banana. The sequenced genome of M. fijiensis was screened for sequences with single sequence repeats (SSRs) using a Perl script. Fourteen SSR loci, evaluated on 48 M. fijiensis isolates from Hawaii, were identified to be highly polymorphic. These markers revealed two to 19 alleles, with an average of 6.43 alleles per locus. The estimated gene diversity ranged from 0.091 to 0.930 across the 14 microsatellite loci. The SSR markers developed would be useful for population genetics studies of M. fijiensis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 55105, USA.
authors.forename: Bao Jun
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Shao Bin
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Zhong