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Systematics

Sifford, Mason [1], Karemera, Hassan [1], Gernandt, David S. [2], Moreno, Alejandra [3], Willyard, Ann [4].

Mitochondrial lineages of Pinus subsection Ponderosae to resolve the relationship of species named in the United States and Mexico.

Pinus subsection Ponderosae (Pinus, subgenus Pinus, section Trifoliae) includes about seventeen tree species distributed from Canada to Nicaragua. This research extended a previous study that used haplotypes based on a variable length intron in the mitochondrial gene nad1 to identify patterns within Pinus ponderosa. In the U.S.A., P. ponderosa is distributed over a vast geographic range and is thought to comprise at least two divergent lineages. We compared published mitochondrial haplotypes from across the range of P. ponderosa in the U.S.A. to haplotypes that we identified in related species of Pinus in Mexico and Central America. Alignments were performed on nucleotide sequences and relative relationships were determined among the newly identified haplotypes. These mitochondrial lineages, which move only through seed dispersal, provide information for detecting centers of diversification and glacial refugia for the Ponderosae that can be compared to phylogeographic patterns that are observed in pine’s pollen-dispersed plastid lineages.


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1 - Hendrix College, Biology Department, 1600 Washington Ave, Conway, AR, 72032, USA
2 - Instituto De Biologia, UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-233, Coyoacan, Mexico, N/A, 04510, Mexico
3 - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Jardin Botanico, Instituto de Biologia, Apartado Postal 70-367, Mexico, D.F., 04510, Mexico
4 - Hendrix College, Biology Dept, 1600 Washington Ave, Conway, AR, 72032, USA

Keywords:
pine
Mitochondria.

Presentation Type: Poster
Session: P, Systematics Section/ASPT Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall/Savannah International Trade and Convention Center
Date: Monday, August 1st, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM This poster will be presented at 5:30 pm. The Poster Session runs from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. Posters with odd poster numbers are presented at 5:30 pm, and posters with even poster numbers are presented at 6:15 pm.
Number: PSY013
Abstract ID:303
Candidate for Awards:None


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