Estimating herbarium specimen digitization rates: Accounting for human experience.

Premise: Herbaria are invaluable sources for understanding the natural world, and in recent years there has been a concerted effort to digitize these collections. To organize such efforts, a method for estimating the necessary labor is desired. This work analyzes digitization productivity reports of 105 participants from eight herbaria, deriving generalized labor estimates that account for human experience.

Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite markers for the widespread Labrador tea ().

Premise: Microsatellite markers were developed for Labrador tea (, Ericaceae) to facilitate downstream genetic investigation of this species and the extremely closely related, circumboreal subsect. .

Methods And Results: Forty-eight primer pairs were designed using Illumina data and screened for excellent amplification.

Microsatellite markers for the biogeographically enigmatic sandmyrtle (, Phyllodoceae: Ericaceae).

Premise: Microsatellite markers were developed for sandmyrtle, (Ericaceae), to facilitate phylogeographic studies in this taxon and possibly many of its close relatives.

Methods And Results: Forty-eight primer pairs designed from paired-end Illumina MiSeq data were screened for robust amplification. Sixteen pairs were amplified again, but with fluorescently labeled primers to facilitate genotyping.

Fifteen microsatellite markers for the Appalachian rockcap fern, (Polypodiaceae), and its relatives.

Premise Of The Study: Microsatellite markers were developed for (Polypodiaceae) to facilitate investigation of species boundaries between and its putative hybrid, , and potentially among other members of the Miocene-age species complex.

Methods And Results: Forty-eight primer pairs were designed from Illumina data and screened for successful amplification. Sixteen pairs were genotyped and evaluated for variability within and among three populations in North Carolina, Vermont, and New Hampshire.