Skip to main content
. 2012 Dec 18;2012:pls033. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/pls033

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Alexandrium tamarense microsatellite amplifications of the three local strains with (A) specific primers ATB8 (lanes 1, 2 and 3) and ATD8 (lanes 4, 5 and 6). Lanes 7 and 8 correspond to controls with primers ATB8 without DNA. (B) Specific amplification with primers ATB1 (lanes 1, 2 and 3) and ATF11 (lanes 6, 7 and 8). Lanes 4–5 and 9–10 are controls without DNA for primer sets ATB1 and ATF11, respectively. M = 100-bp DNA size marker. Species-specific microsatellite amplifications using A. catenella and A. tamarense primers were carried out in a MaxiGene Gradiente thermocycler (Axygen) in 1× PCR buffer, 20–50 ng of genomic DNA template, 3 mM MgCl2, 100 µM each dNTP, 0.1 µM each primer and 0.4 U of TopTaq DNA polymerase (Fermentas) in a 10-µL reaction volume. Five microlitres of each PCR product were analysed in a 2 % agarose gel. A Fermentas GeneRullerTM 100-bp DNA ladder was used for size estimation of amplified fragments.