Barcoding success as a function of phylogenetic relatedness in Viburnum, a clade of woody angiosperms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The chloroplast genes matK and rbcL have been proposed as a "core" DNA barcode for identifying plant species. Published estimates of successful species identification using these loci (70-80%) may be inflated because they may have involved comparisons among distantly related species within target genera. To assess the ability of the proposed two-locus barcode to discriminate closely related species, we carried out a hierarchically structured set of comparisons within Viburnum, a clade of woody angiosperms containing ca. 170 species (some 70 of which are currently used in horticulture). For 112 Viburnum species, we evaluated rbcL + matK, as well as the chloroplast regions rpl32-trnL, trnH-psbA, trnK, and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (nrITS).

SUBMITTER: Clement WL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3433329 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature