Tropical forest species

Genetic diversity of Metrodorea nigra (Rutaceae) from a small forest remnant in Brazil assessed with microsatellite markers

M. C. Guidugli, Ferreira-Ramos, R., de Sousa, A. C. B., Cidade, F. W., Marconi, T. G., Mestriner, M. A., Groppo, M., and Alzate-Marin, A. L., Genetic diversity of Metrodorea nigra (Rutaceae) from a small forest remnant in Brazil assessed with microsatellite markers, vol. 11, pp. 10-16, 2012.

Metrodorea nigra (Rutaceae) is an endemic Brazilian tree of great ecological importance, frequently found in the submontane regions of ombrophilous dense and semideciduous forests. This tree is useful for reforesting degraded areas and the wood can be employed in construction. We developed 12 microsatellite markers from a genomic library enriched for GA/CA repeats, for this species. Polymorphisms were assessed in 40 trees of a highly fragmented population found in Cravinhos, State of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil.

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