Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the European Commission project “West African Teak (Waft)” (IncoDev
ICA4-CT-2001-10090) which supported this research in Côte d’Ivoire and in the CIRAD
BIOS UR 39 laboratory of Montpellier. Many thanks to the SODEFOR (Forest Development
Society BP 3770 Abidjan 01 Côte d’Ivoire) which supplied the teak plant material.We are
very grateful to Mireille POITEL for her assistance in creating the microsatellite bank and
for help with populations’ genotyping. We thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive
comments on earlier versions of this paper.