Isolation of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the New Zealand endemic sand-binder, (Cyperaceae).

Premise Of The Study: (Cyperaceae) is a declining sand-binding sedge of ecological and cultural importance. Microsatellite primers were developed in to investigate how population genetic structure is related to the pronounced morphological, physiological, and ecological variation observed in this species.

Methods And Results: A 454 shotgun-sequencing approach was used to generate 157,274 raw sequence reads, 536 of which contained microsatellites.