title: Development of microsatellite loci for Aconitum gymnandrum (Ranunculaceae), a species endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Polymorphic microsatellite loci primers were developed in an alpine plant endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Aconitum gymnandrum, to investigate its population genetic structure and cryptic speciation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using the combined biotin capture method, 16 polymorphic microsatellite loci were identified in 66 individuals from six geographically distant populations of A. gymnandrum. Across all the A. gymnandrum samples, the number of alleles per locus ranged from 4 to 15.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These markers will be useful to study population structure and cryptic speciation of A. gymnandrum.
authors: Division of Molecular Ecology, Key laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
authors: Tingting
authors: T
authors: Xu
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Chen
authors: Lili
authors: L
authors: Zhu
authors: Zhonghu
authors: Z
authors: Li