“…We generated the first draft for genome sequence of A. coronaria , and we report on the massive microsatellite loci identification following its genome-wide survey. Microsatellite—alias simple sequence repeats (SSR)-markers, are co-dominantly inherited, ubiquitous, highly polymorphic, and have found large application in plant breeding and phylogenetic studies because of their simple application through conventional PCR protocols [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. Unlike single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which have become the gold standard among molecular markers, SSRs show the advantage of being multi-allelic and highly informative, characterized by a certain level of transferability between related specie [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ], and are easily and automatically scorable.…”