Date of Award
Spring 5-11-2012
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Biological Sciences
First Advisor
Mac H. Alford
Advisor Department
Biological Sciences
Abstract
Samydaceae are a tropical family of woody flowering plants, poorly known because they were once included in the ‘dustbin’ family Flacourtiaceae and because there are few economically important species. The family has recently been studied using DNA sequence data, but most of the data were from plastid DNA and some relationships had low statistical support. For this study, two nuclear regions, EMB2765 and GBSSI, were sequenced in order to affirm or refute the relationships inferred from plastid DNA and in order to find stronger statistical support for relationships. The data collected mostly affirm previously collected data from plastid DNA.
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Recommended Citation
Williams, Chelsa, "A Phylogeny of Samydaceae Based on Nuclear GBSSI and EMB2765 DNA Sequences" (2012). Honors Theses. 70.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/70