Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Molecular evolutionary studies share the common goal of elucidating historical relationships, and the common challenge of adequately sampling taxa and characters. Particularly at low taxonomic levels, recent divergence, rapid radiations, and conservative genome evolution yield limited sequence variation, and dense taxon sampling is often desirable. Recent advances in massively parallel sequencing make it possible to rapidly obtain large amounts of sequence data, and multiplexing makes extensive sampling of megabase sequences feasible. Is it possible to efficiently apply massively parallel sequencing to increase phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels?

Results

We reconstruct the infrageneric phylogeny of Pinus from 37 nearly-complete chloroplast genomes (av

SUBMITTER: Parks M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2793254 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature