title: Microsatellite markers for the Pilosella alpicola group (Hieraciinae, Asteraceae) and their cross-amplification in other Hieraciinae genera.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Microsatellite markers were developed for the Pilosella alpicola group (Asteraceae), comprising four closely related species distributed in subalpine areas of Europe. These species are believed to have diverged recently, but display contrasting cytogeographic patterns and variation in breeding systems, representing a promising model system for studying plant speciation, adaptation, and recent polyploidization.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We developed 17 microsatellite markers for the P. alpicola group using 454 sequencing. Sixteen markers were polymorphic, with the number of alleles per locus ranging from seven to 16 and observed and expected heterozygosity ranging from 0.45 to 0.84 and 0.72 to 0.92, respectively. Ten and five loci amplified in the related species, P. echioides and P. officinarum, respectively, but only two in Andryala and one in Hieracium s. str.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The developed microsatellite markers have high potential to become useful tools to study microevolutionary processes in the P. alpicola group and related Pilosella species.
authors: Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic ; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Prague CZ-165 21, Czech Republic.
authors: Petr
authors: P
authors: Vít
authors: Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors: Barbora
authors: B
authors: Šingliarová
authors: Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors: Judita
authors: J
authors: Zozomová-Lihová
authors: Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovak Republic ; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Prague, Czech Republic.
authors: Karol
authors: K
authors: Marhold
authors: Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic ; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Prague CZ-165 21, Czech Republic.
authors: Karol
authors: K
authors: Krak
keywords: Pilosella alpicola; hybridization; polyploidy; population genetics; simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers