Symbiodinium “
fitti” DNA was amplified with primers given by Pinzón, Devlin‐Durante, Weber, Baums, and LaJeunesse (
2011) (
n = 10 loci). Three additional loci for
S. “
fitti” were developed de novo (Table
S1). Alleles were fluorescently visualized and sized with internal standards on a
PRISM 3100 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems). Briefly, 25–50 ng of template DNA was added to polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) containing 1 × Standard
Taq Buffer (New England Biolabs), 2.5 mm MgCl (New England Biolabs), 0.5 mg/ml
bovine serum albumin (New England Biolabs) and 0.75 U of Taq (0.325 U for primers 31, 32 and 41; New England Biolabs). Each primer was added at 200 nm to reactions involving loci A3Sym_01, 18, 27 and 28, whereas a primer concentration of 93 nm was added to reactions for primers 31, 32 and 41. Concentrations of 50 nm of the tailed forward primer (see Table
S1), 150 nm of the reverse primer and 75 nm of the dye‐labelled T‐oligonucleotide were used for amplifying loci A3Sym_01, 02, 03, 07, 08, 09 and 48. All loci were amplified using the following thermal cycle profile: 94°C for 2 min (one cycle); 94°C for 15 s, primer‐specific annealing temperature (Table
S1) for 15 s and 72°C for 30 s (31 cycles); and 72°C for 30 min on a
Mastercycler gradient thermal cycler (Eppendorf). Table
S2 provides details of microsatellite genotype allele calls.
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