Methods for Development of Microsatellite Markers: An Overview

Microsatellite or Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers have evolved to the status of a most versatile and popular genetic marker in a ubiquity of plant systems. Due to their co-dominant, hyper-variable and multiallelic nature, they are the prominent markers of choice for fingerprinting, conservation genetics, plant breeding and phylogenetic studies. Despite its development of a new set of SSR markers for a species remained time consuming and expensive for many years. However, with the recent advancement in genomics, new strategies/protocols are now available for the generation of SSR markers. This review presents an overview on microsatellite markers with a special emphasis on the various strategies used for the development of microsatellite markers

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-napoca

• Publication date

  2014-03-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Materials Science

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  DOI 10.15835/NSB619199
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