Characterization of 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers for Mediterranean blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis by EST database mining and cross-species amplification

. The lack of sufficient polymorphic molec-ular markers has limited the development of molecularphylogeny, population genetic analysis and marker-assistedbreeding in this species.Among the various currently available DNA markers thatcan be used to examine genetic diversity at the molecularlevel, the most informative and polymorphic are microsatel-lite DNA markers (Liu and Cordes 2004;Li