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Transferability of nuclear microsatellite markers to Stigmatodon species: a bromeliad genus endemic to vertical cliffs of inselbergs in Brazil

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Stigmatodon Leme, G.K.Br. & Barfuss is one of the most representative Bromeliaceae genera that grow on the steepest slopes of the inselbergs of southeastern Brazil. Inselberg environments are characterized as islands due to their restricted, disjunct distribution and geographical isolation. These features make these sites interesting models for evolutionary and population genetic studies. In this study we report, the cross-species transferability of nuclear microsatellite markers, originally developed for other Bromeliaceae, to four Stigmatodon species: Stigmatodon brassicoides, S. costae, S. goniorachis and Stigmatodon sp. nov. Twenty-four microsatellite markers were tested, and 12 of these were successfully amplified in the four studied species. In S. brassicoides and S. costae, 10 markers showed amplification with polymorphism, and in Stigmatodon sp. nov and S. goniorachis, all 12 markers showed polymorphisms. The number of alleles ranged from two to four in S. brassicoides; from two to three in S. costae; from two to six in Stigmatodon sp. nov; and from two to seven in S. goniorachis. HO values ranged from 0.05 (P2P19 locus) in S. brassicoides to 0.689 (VgA04 locus) in S. goniorachis. The set of amplified microsatellite markers described in this study will be a useful tool for addressing various evolutionary, ecological and conservation aspects of Stigmatodon species.

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The study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brazil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001, with the PhD grants awarded to DRC and VCM, and CAPES-PROTAX-II to VCM; by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), through an AFC research productivity grant (process #305704/2018-4); and by the Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), with research grants (process#E-26/200.073/2019-BOLSA) to AFC.

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    Vitor Cunha Manhães & Dayvid Rodrigues Couto

  2. Laboratório de Biodiversidade e Evolução Molecular, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur 458, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-255, Brazil

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  3. Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, 20949-040, Brazil

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Manhães, V.C., Couto, D.R., Salgueiro, F. et al. Transferability of nuclear microsatellite markers to Stigmatodon species: a bromeliad genus endemic to vertical cliffs of inselbergs in Brazil. Braz. J. Bot 43, 823–830 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-020-00647-y

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