Abstract
Mauritia flexuosa L.f. (Arecaceae) is a New World tropical palm that generally grows in isolated swamps along meandering rivers and is in danger of fragmentation through unsustainable harvest practices. To explore gene flow among populations of M. flexuosa in Amazonia, we developed 13 novel, polymorphic microsatellite loci for M. flexuosa. Further studies will employ these loci to investigate the impacts of artisanal gold mining and wild-harvest on gene flow among populations of M. flexuosa.
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We thank Larry Noblick at the Montgomery Botanical Center, FL, and Flavio Obermuller at the University of Acre, Brazil, for leaf material, Douglas Daly, Mark Ashton, and Benjamin Evans, for their advice and support, and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Yale University Carpenter-Sperry Grant for funding.
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Federman, S., Hyseni, C., Clement, W. et al. Isolation of 13 novel highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Amazonian Palm Mauritia flexuosa L.f. (Arecaceae). Conservation Genet Resour 4, 355–357 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9547-8
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