About the Authors
- Yong-Zhong Shi
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Current address: Health Division, Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Affiliation Forest Genetics and Biotechnology Group, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Natascha Forneris
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Current address: Hinton Training Centre, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Hinton, Alberta, Canada
Affiliation Forest Genetics and Biotechnology Group, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Om P. Rajora
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* E-mail: Om.Rajora@unb.ca
Affiliations Forest Genetics and Biotechnology Group, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YS OPR. Performed the experiments: YS NF. Analyzed the data: YS NF OPR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OPR. Wrote the paper: OPR YS NF. Contributed to the conception of idea for developing microsatellite markers from microsatellite-enriched AFLP fragments, developed and optimized the protocol, developed and optimized microsatellite markers and contributed to the manuscript writing and revision: YS. Contributed to the lab work and data scoring and analysis for determining the informtaiveness, inheritance and cross-species transferability of the microsatellite markers, and to the manuscript preparation: NF. Principal Investigator of the project and contributed to the study conception, experimental design, data analysis, overall research directions and guidance, and manuscript writing and revision, and obtained funding and provided laboratory facilities: OPR.