Table 2.

Summary of the principal DNA-based molecular markers applied in Olea europaea studies.

Molecular Marker	Developers	Application in Olea europea L.	References
RFLP	Williams et al., 1989	Wild and cultivated olea variability	[49]
		Phylogenetic studies	[50,51,52,53]
		Genetic maps	[54,55,56,57,58]
		Development of organelle-based markers	[53,192,193,194]
RAPD	Williams et al., 1990	DNA fingerprinting of cultivars	[18,60,61,62]
		Phylogenetic studies	[7,63]
AFLP	Vos et al., 1995	DNA fingerprinting of cultivars	[65,66]
		Phylogenetic studies	[67,68]
		Construction of linkage map	[55,69,70]
		QTL identification	[71,72]
SCAR and CAPS	Paran and Michelmore, 1993	DNA fingerprinting of cultivars	[73,74]
		Cultivar traceability in olive oil	[76,203]
ISSR	Zietkiewicz et al., 1994	Phylogenetic studies	[79]
		Germplasm characterization	[80,81,82,83]
SSR	Morgante and Olivieri, 1993	Phylogenetic studies	[9,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104]
		Subspecies analysis	[10,21,105,106]
		DNA fingerprinting of cultivars	[54,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123]
		Cultivar traceability in olive oil	[142,143,144,145,201]
EST-SSR		Germplasm characterization	[22,121,127]
SNP	Wang et al., 1998	Cultivar identification	[12,107,148,153,159]
		Genetic maps	[149,152,158]
		Phylogenetic studies	[150,151,160]
		Cultivar traceability in olive oil	[48]