Abstract Detail
Systematics McDonnell, Angela Jean [1], Fishbein, Mark [1]. Phylogeny and evolution of New World milkweed vines (Asclepiadoideae, Gonolobinae): a genome skimming and targeted enrichment approach. Milkweed subtribe Gonolobinae is diverse (~475 spp.) and has an origin in the Neotropics, but has undergone significant radiation in the seasonally dry grasslands and savannas of subtropical and temperate North America, making it an ideal group for exploring little known milkweeds of the temperate North American flora. A useful classification and an understanding of evolution within the American milkweed vines have been evasive to botanists due to extensive floral variation within the group. To address this problem, we use a genome skimming and targeted enrichment approach to obtain sequence data for hundreds of nuclear loci as well as complete plastomes and nrDNA cistrons to investigate the evolutionary relationships among a broadly-sampled (90 spp.) subtribe.
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1 - Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology & Evolution, 301 Physical Sciences, Stillwater, OK, 74078, United States
Keywords:
Milkweed
Apocynaceae
Next generation sequencing
Genomics
phylogeny
evolution.
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 12, Rosids II/Basal Asterids & Asterids I part A
Location: 102/Savannah International Trade and Convention Center
Date: Monday, August 1st, 2016
Time: 4:45 PM
Number: 12013
Abstract ID:394
Candidate for Awards:None | 
