Development and characterization of 11 microsatellite markers in a widespread Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forest tree species, Geoffroea spinosa Jacq. (Leguminosae).

NACIRI GRAVEN Y., CAETANO S., PRADO D., PENNINGTON T., SPICHIGER R.

Molecular Ecology Notes

Blackwell Publishing

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2005 vol. 5 p. 542 - 545

1471-8278

Astronium urundeuva (Fr. Allemão) Engl. (Anacardiaceae) is a wind-dispersed tree species, especially well represented in Paraguay, Central Brazil, Northwestern Argentina and Bolivia. This tree is found in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) that are defined as woody vegetations occurring in areas that have a drought period of about half a year in one or two periods, and an annual rainfall of between 400 and 1700 mm (Gerhardt & Hytteborn 1992). In contrast with other SDTF species that are found in areas scattered all around the Amazon basin (Prado & Gibbs 1993; Pennington et al. 2000), A. urundeuva is specific of the Paraña-São Francisco axis, south of the Amazon basin (Spichiger et al. 1995; 2004). Microsatellite markers were characterized in this species as part of a program aiming at analyzing the links between the disjunct areas of SDTF in South America.