Authors: Chai Ting Lee Soon Leong Lee Lee Hong Tnah Kevin Kit Siong Ng Chin Hong Ng Shawn Cheng Naoki Tani
Publish Date: 2013/12/08
Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 389-391
Abstract
Intsia palembanica is a highvalue tropical hardwood species of the family Leguminosae A total of 16 microsatellite markers were developed for this important timber species using an enrichment approach These markers were screened on 24 samples from a natural population and subsequently tested for reproducibility ease of scoring and locusspecificity across five populations The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0026 to 0976 and 0026 to 0928 respectively while the mean number of alleles per locus per population was 873 These microsatellite markers are informative and will be useful for conservation genetic study individual identification and timber trackingThe authors thank Mariam Din Sharifah Talib Ramli Ponyoh Ghazali Jaafar Yahya Marhani Suryani Che Seman Nurul Hudaini Mamat and Rajaletchumi Chanderan Sagaran for their excellent assistance in the laboratory and at the field The Kedah Perak Selangor and Negeri Sembilan State Forest Departments are acknowledged for granting permission to collect samples from the forest This Project was funded by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Malaysia under the 10th Malaysia Plan
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