bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.926626; this version posted January 30, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Transferability, development of Single Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers and application 2 to the analysis of genetic diversity and population structure of the African fan palm 3 (Borassus aethiopum Mart.) in Benin 4 5 Mariano Joly Kpaténon1,2,3, Valère Kolawolé Salako2,4, Sylvain Santoni5, Leila Zekraoui3, 6 Muriel Latreille5, Christine Tollon-Cordet5, Cédric Mariac3, Estelle Jaligot 3,6 #, Thierry Beulé 7 3,6 #, Kifouli Adéoti 1,2 #* 8 9 Affiliations : 10 1 Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Technologie Alimentaire (LAMITA), Faculté des Sciences 11 et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin 12 2 Biodiversité et Ecologie des Plantes (BDEP), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université 13 d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin 14 3 DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France, 15 4 Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières (LABEF), Faculté des Sciences 16 Agronomiques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin 17 5 AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France 18 6 CIRAD, UMR DIADE, Montpellier, France 19 20 # equal contribution as last authors 21 * corresponding author 22 Email:
[email protected] (KA) 23 24 Author contributions 25 Conceptualization: VKS, EJ, TB, KA 26 Funding acquisition: VKS, EJ, TB, KA 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.926626; this version posted January 30, 2020.