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SUBMITTER: Pineiro R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5315384 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applications in plant sciences 20170214 2
<h4>Premise of the study</h4>Southwestern Britain is an emblematic hotspot of polyploid diversity of whitebeams (<i>Sorbus aria</i> agg.; Rosaceae) with ca. 30 polyploid endemic species. The tetraploid <i>S. porrigentiformis</i> is postulated as one of the parents of most of these endemics, along with the sexual diploid <i>S. aria</i> s. str. and the tetraploid <i>S. rupicola</i>.<h4>Methods and results</h4>We isolated 16 nuclear microsatellite loci from <i>S. porrigentiformis</i> and characteri ...[more]