The chloroplast PCR primer database

http://bfw.ac.at/200/1859.html The data collected: A data base is presented which collects published primer information for chloroplast DNA. Additional primers were designed in order to fill gaps were no or little primer information could be found. Chloroplast genes evolve slowly, and many primers have been designed to work across species ('universal primers', e.g. Taberlet et al. 1991, Grivet et al. 2001). Amplicons are either the genes themselves, typically in studies of sequence variation in higher-order phylogeny, or spacers, introns, and intergenic regions (e.g. Graham and Olmstead 2000, Small et al. 1998, Shaw et al. 2005) in studies of phylogeographic patterns within and among species. The current list of 'generic' primers consists of more than 500 sequences.