“…Microsatellites may be good candidates for such studies due to their high mutation rate and polymorphism (Jarne and Lagoda, 1996;Estoup and Cornuet, 2000;Goldstein and Schlötterer, 2000;Ellegren, 2004). Many empirical studies have shown that microsatellites might be successfully employed in phylogenetic reconstruction (Estoup et al, 1995;Harr et al, 1998;Petren et al, 1999Petren et al, , 2005Richard and Thorpe, 2001;Peréz et al, 2002;Orsini et al, 2004;Chirhart et al, 2005;Hughes et al, 2005;Kankare et al, 2005;Knaden et al, 2005), although in some cases they did not give a phylogeny congruent with other genetic markers or theoretical expectations (Peatkau et al, 1997). The number of studies successfully applying microsatellites exceeds the number of studies showing their limits in phylogenetic reconstruction, although this shift might be caused by failure to publish negative results.…”