Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in , a native plant of the Cerrado ecoregions of South America.

Premise: A novel set of nuclear microsatellite markers was developed and characterized for (Myrtaceae) and tested for cross-amplification in the related species .

Methods And Results: Forty-one primer pairs were designed for simple sequence repeat loci, of which 36 successfully amplified and were polymorphic. The number of alleles ranged from two to 14, with an average of 8.