Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

Few genetic markers, if any, have found such widespread use as microsatellites, or
simple/short tandem repeats. Features such as hypervariability and ubiquitous occurrence …

Microsatellite markers are routinely used to investigate the genetic structuring of natural
populations. The knowledge of how genetic variation is partitioned among populations may …

Homoplasy has recently attracted the attention of population geneticists, as a consequence
of the popularity of highly variable stepwise mutating markers such as microsatellites …

Within the past decade microsatellites have developed into one of the most popular genetic
markers. Despite the widespread use of microsatellite analysis, an integral picture of the …

Although highly variable loci, such as microsatellite loci, are revolutionizing both
evolutionary and conservation biology, data from these loci need to be carefully evaluated …

Microsatellites are short segments of DNA in which a specific motif of 1-6 bases is repeated
up to a usual maximum of 60 or so. Due to their exceptional variability and relative ease of …

We investigated the transferability of 31 soybean (Glycine max) simple sequence repeat
(SSR) loci to wild congeners and to other legume genera. Up to 65% of the soybean primer …

Microsatellite DNA loci have recently been adopted for many biological applications.
Comparative studies across a wide range of species has revealed many details of their …

Using the generalized stepwise mutation model, we propose a method of estimating the
relative mutation rates of microsatellite loci, grouped by the repeat motif. Applying ANOVA to …