DNA barcoding the flowering plants from the tropical coral islands of Xisha (China).

ABSTRACT:

Aim

DNA barcoding has been widely applied to species diversity assessment in various ecosystems, including temperate forests, subtropical forests, and tropical rain forests. However, tropical coral islands have never been barcoded before due to the difficulties in field exploring. This study aims at barcoding the flowering plants from a unique ecosystem of the tropical coral islands in the Pacific Ocean and supplying valuable evolutionary information for better understanding plant community assembly of those particular islands in the future.

Location

Xisha Islands, China.

Methods

This study built a DNA barcode database for 155 plant species from the Xisha Islands using three DNA markers (ITS, rbcL, and matK). We applied the sequence similarity method and

SUBMITTER: Li S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238132 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature