High level of molecular and phenotypic biodiversity in Jatropha curcasfrom Central America compared to Africa, Asia and South America

Table 1 Summary statistics for SSR, TRAP and AFLP markers

Characteristic	SSR	TRAP	AFLP
Number of markers tested for amplification	29	13	20
Number of markers yielding polymorphic patterns	14	6	2
Total number of polymorphisms amplified	73	31	86
Average number of polymorphic bands per marker	5	5
Highest number of polymorphic bands per marker	12	10
Lowest number of polymorphic bands per marker	2	2
Total number of null alleles	2
Total number of exclusive alleles	22

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