GDR Marker Types

Marker Type Marker Abbreviation Full Marker Name or Target Technology Reference
Fingerprinting

AFLP

RFLP

ISSR

RAPD

SRAP

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Inter-simple sequence repeat

Random amplified polymorphic DNA

Sequence-related amplified polymorphism

Vos et al, 1995

Botstein et al, 1980

Zietkiewicz et al, 1994

Williams et al, 1990

Li and Quiros, 2001

Feature-specific PCR with cleavage

CAPS

dCAPS

Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences

Deviated Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences

Konieczny and Ausubel, 1993

Neff et al, 1998

Feature-specific PCR

EST marker or EST

EST-SSR

gene marker

SSR

STMS

STS

Indel

RGA

SCAR

Expressed Sequence Tag

SSR sequence from an EST

Gene sequence

Microsatellites, simple sequence repeats

Sequence-tagged microsatellite

Sequence tagged site

Insertions/Deletions

Resistance gene analog

Sequence characterized amplified regions

Parkinson and Blaxter, 2009

Ellis and Burke, 2007

NA

Tautz, 1989

Beckmann and Soller, 1990

Green and Green, 1991

Bhangale et al, 2005

Kanazin et al, 1996

Paran and Michelmore, 1993

SNP-specific

SNAP

SNP

Single nucleotide amplified polymorphism

Single nucleotide polymorphism

Drenkard et al, 2000

Ahmadian et al, 2000

Misc. markers

DArT

HRM

SSCP

Isozyme

genetic marker

Diversity array technology

High resolution melting marker

Single-stranded confirmation polymorphism

Enzyme form

Unknown marker type

Jaccoud et al, 2001

Liew et al, 2004

Dong and Zhu, 2005

Nevo, 1987

NA