title: Microsatellites for the mangrove tree Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae): Tools for hybridization and mating system studies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We developed a new set of microsatellite markers for the black mangrove Avicennia germinans, to provide new informative tools for further studies of the mating system, interspecific hybridization, and population genetics. •
  
  
  RESULTS
  We used the microsatellite-enriched library approach to isolate and characterize 25 new primer pairs. Sixteen of them are polymorphic, showing a variable degree of variation in A. germinans, while nine were monomorphic in the samples examined. Eight exhibited private alleles in A. schaueriana. •
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results indicate that these new microsatellite markers will be useful molecular tools for further studies of A. germinans and A. schaueriana population genetics, mating systems, and hybridization.
authors: Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética and Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6010, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, CEP 13083-875.
authors: Gustavo M
authors: GM
authors: Mori
authors: Maria I
authors: MI
authors: Zucchi
authors: Iracilda
authors: I
authors: Sampaio
authors: Anete P
authors: AP
authors: Souza