title: Boechera microsatellite website: an online portal for species identification and determination of hybrid parentage.
abstract: Boechera (Brassicaceae) has many features to recommend it as a model genus for ecological and evolutionary research, including species richness, ecological diversity, experimental tractability and close phylogenetic proximity to Arabidopsis . However, efforts to realize the full potential of this model system have been thwarted by the frequent inability of researchers to identify their samples and place them in a broader evolutionary context. Here we present the Boechera Microsatellite Website (BMW), a portal that archives over 55 000 microsatellite allele calls from 4471 specimens (including 133 nomenclatural types). The portal includes analytical tools that utilize data from 15 microsatellite loci as a highly effective DNA barcoding system. The BMW facilitates the accurate identification of Boechera samples and the investigation of reticulate evolution among the ±83 sexual diploid taxa in the genus, thereby greatly enhancing Boechera 's potential as a model system.
  
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.|University and Jepson Herbaria and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Fay-Wei
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.|University and Jepson Herbaria and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Catherine A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rushworth
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260, USA.|Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1700 University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
authors.forename: James B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Windham
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D058893:DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020407:Internet; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant