Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Repeated DNA sequences and species relatedness in the genusEquisetum

  • Published:
Plant Systematics and Evolution Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The kinetics with which DNA reassociates and the thermal stability of rapidly reassociating (repetitive) DNA sequences have been monitored for six species in the genusEquisetum. Using the kinetic complexity for each of two repeated DNA sequence components as the basis for comparison, species in the subgenusEquisetum (E. arvense, E. fluviatile andE. telmateia) form one group and species in the subgenusHippochaete (E. hyemale, E. laevigatum andE. scirpoides) form another group. Using the difference in thermal stability between native and reassociated repetitive DNA for comparison, the same grouping of species is obtained.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Banks, H. P., 1970: Evolution and Plants of the Past. — Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bendich, A. J., Anderson, R. S., 1977: Characterization of families of repeated DNA sequences from four vascular plants. — Biochem.16, 4655–4663.

    Google Scholar 

  • —, 1980: On the functional significance of DNA sequence organization in vascular plants. — InLeaver, C. J., (Ed.): Genome Organization and Expression in Plants, 17–30. — New York: Plenum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, B. R., 1971: Isolation and base composition of DNAs of primitive land plants. I. Ferns and fern-allies. — Biochim. Biophys. Acta254, 402–406.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hauke, R., 1963: A taxonomic monograph of the genusEquisetum subgenusHippochaete. — Beih. Nova Hedwigia8, 1–123.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sparrow, A. H., Price, H. J., Underbrink, A. G., 1972: A survey of DNA content per cell and per chromosome of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms: Some evolutionary considerations. — Brookhaven Symp. Biol.23, 451–494.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ward, B. L., Anderson, R. S., Bendich, A. J., 1981: The mitochondrial genome is large and variable in a family of plants (Cucurbitaceae). — Cell25, 793–803.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wetmur, J. G., 1976: Hybridization and renaturation kinetics of nucleic acids. — Ann. Rev. Biophys. Bioeng.5, 337–361.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departments of Botany and Genetics, KB-15, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA

    Arnold J. Bendich & Robert S. Anderson

Authors
  1. Arnold J. Bendich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Robert S. Anderson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bendich, A.J., Anderson, R.S. Repeated DNA sequences and species relatedness in the genusEquisetum . Pl Syst Evol 143, 47–52 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984111

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984111

Key words

Search

Navigation