The PCR primers used were those developed for P. dominula (Henshaw 2000 (link)). PCRs were carried out in 5 μl reaction volumes containing 1× Type-it Microsatellite Kit (Qiagen), 0.07 μM forward primer, 0.2 μM reverse primer, 0.14 μM fluorescent-labeled M13 primer, and 1 μl (6–65 ng) of DNA template using a thermocycling profile of one cycle of 5 min at 96 °C followed by 30 steps of 30 s at 95 °C, 90 s at 50 °C, and 30 s at 72 °C, with a final step of 30 min at 65 °C.
Amplicons were fluorescently labeled in multiplexed reactions using a modified M13-tailing method (Oetting et al. 1995 (link)). The amplified alleles were separated on an ABI PRISM 3130XL (Applied Biosystems) with Genescan 600LIZ size standard and scored with the program Peak Scanner v 1.0 (Applied Biosystems).