TABLE 2.

Description of the microsatellite loci used and summary of the allelic variation

Locusa	GenBank accession no.	Repeat motif	No. of alleles sampled			Allele size range (nt)	Heb		Hoc
			M. balbisiana	Other Musa spp.	Total		M. balbisiana	Other Musa spp.
mMaCIR08†	X87264	(TC)6N24(TC)7	5	11	13	251-287	0.573	0.964	0.608
mMaCIR307‡	AM950533	(CA)6	1	4	4	162-170	0.000	0.727	0.045
mMaCIR07†	X87258	(GA)13	6	11	14	148-188	0.504	0.945	0.514
mMaCIR13†	X90745	(GA)16N76(GA)8	6	9	13	266-307	0.676	0.933	0.550
Ma3-90*	NAd	NAa	4	9	13	142-177	0.554	0.918	0.429
mMaCIR01†	X87262	(GA)20	6	9	14	248-329	0.609	0.933	0.572
mMaCIR39†	Z85970	(CA)5GATA(GA)5	6	9	12	295-388	0.681	0.918	0.634
mMaCIR260‡	AM950515	(TG)8	3	6	7	208-256	0.608	0.855	0.332
mMaCIR03†	X87263	(GA)10	2	6	7	116-148	0.516	0.782	0.382
mMaCIR40†	Z85977	(GA)13	5	10	14	170-232	0.750	0.955	0.500
mMaCIR150‡	AM950440	(CA)10	3	6	7	253-271	0.495	0.819	0.436
mMaCIR214‡	AM950480	(AC)7	3	2	4	122-130	0.611	0.527	0.420
mMaCIR264‡	AM950519	(CT)17	1	8	9	240-280	0.000	0.927	0.136
mMaCIR152‡	AM950442	(CTT)18	6	6	11	160-196	0.564	0.844	0.450
mMaCIR164‡	AM950454	(AC)14	4	9	13	300-436	0.716	0.964	0.300
mMaCIR196‡	AM950462	(TA)4(TC)17TG(TC)3	4	8	11	162-198	0.737	0.933	0.503
mMaCIR231‡	AM950497	(TC)10	2	10	12	240-280	0.523	0.909	0.325
mMaCIR45†	Z85968	(TA)4CA(CTCGA)4	2	8	9	278-296	0.329	0.936	0.241
mMaCIR24†	Z85972	(TC)7	4	7	9	239-289	0.655	0.767	0.400

^aReferences: *, Crouch et al. (7); †, Lagoda et al. (37); ‡, I. Hippolyte et al., unpublished data.

^bHe, gene diversity per locus and groups (M. balbisiana, other Musa species).

^cHo is the observed heterozygosity.

^dNA, not available.