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Summary: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 29:148161, 2010
Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN: 0735-2689 print / 1549-7836 online
DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2010.481167
Plant Parentage, Pollination, and Dispersal: How DNA
Microsatellites Have Altered the Landscape
Mary V. Ashley
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................148
II. MICROSATELLITES AND PARENTAGE ASSIGNMENT ..............................................................................149
III. LIMITATIONS AND CONSTRAINTS ..............................................................................................................150
IV. OVERVIEW OF MICROSATELLITE PARENTAGE STUDIES .......................................................................151
V. POLLEN DISPERSAL IN WIND-POLLINATED SPECIES .............................................................................154
VI. POLLEN DISPERSAL IN ANIMAL-POLLINATED SPECIES ........................................................................156
VII. PARENTAGE ASSIGNMENT AND SEED DISPERSAL ...................................................................................157
VIII. CONCLUSIONS ...............................................................................................................................................158
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...........................................................................................................................................158
REFERENCES ..........................................................................................................................................................158
DNA microsatellites provide plant ecologists with molecular
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