title: Isolation and characterization of 19 microsatellite markers in a tropical and warm subtropical birch, Betula alnoides Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don.
abstract: Betula alnoides is an ecologically and economically important species in the tropics and warm subtropics. Nineteen polymorphic microsatellite markers were isolated from this species, which displayed three to 12 alleles per locus. The observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.100 to 0.905, and the expected heterozygosities from 0.510 to 0.893. These markers would be useful tools in genetic resource assessment, molecular marker-assistant breeding, parentage analysis and genetic diversity studies for this species.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Longdong, Guangzhou 510520, China, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Z G
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Zhao