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Nucleic acid comparisons as a tool in understanding species interrelationships and phylogeny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Diana B. Stein
Diana B. Stein
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Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, U.S.A.
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Studies comparing nucleic acids of some pteridophytes with others or with angiosperms are briefly reviewed. Amongst the pteridophytes, the fern genus Osmunda has been most thoroughly investigated by DNA sequence comparisons. O. cinnamomea, O. claytoniana, and O. regalis have equally diverged DNA sequences suggesting that evolutionary lines leading to these three species separated at about the same time; taxonomic placements that link any two of the three species closely together are, therefore, inappropriate. DNAs of the hybrid fern, O. × ruggii, were examined by analysis of restriction fragments of chloroplast DNA and by nuclear DNA hybridisation. The results support the previously proposed parentage.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 86: The Biology of Pteridophytes , 1985 , pp. 283 - 288
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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