Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [email protected]
BMC Res Notes, 2014;7:77.
PMID: 24490797 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-77

Abstract

Gracilaria tenuistipitata is an agarophyte with substantial economic potential because of its high growth rate and tolerance to a wide range of environment factors. This red seaweed is intensively cultured in China for the production of agar and fodder for abalone. Microsatellite markers were developed from the chloroplast genome of G. tenuistipitata var. liui to differentiate G. tenuistipitata obtained from six different localities: four from Peninsular Malaysia, one from Thailand and one from Vietnam. Eighty G. tenuistipitata specimens were analyzed using eight simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer-pairs that we developed for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

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