Article: Reports from X.X. Tan and co-researchers add new data to research in conservation genetics.

"Rhododendron simsii is an important garden plant," scientists writing in the journal Conservation Genetics report.

"We isolated and characterized eight microsatellite loci in this species. The average allele number of these microsatellites was 7.1 per locus, ranging from 6 to 9. The observed and expected heterozygosities were 0.278-0.944 and 0.556-0.871, respectively," wrote X.X. Tan and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "This set of markers is potentially useful to investigate the genetic structure, gene flow, and the phylogeography of R. simsii."

Tan and colleagues published their study in Conservation Genetics (Development and ...

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