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Evidence for a Common Origin of Homomorphic and Heteromorphic Sex Chromosomes in Distinct Spinacia Species.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 5 Jun 2015
Fujito Satoshi, Takahata Satoshi, Suzuki Reimi, Hoshino Yoichiro, Ohmido Nobuko, Onodera Yasuyuki
Abstract excerpt
The dioecious genus Spinacia is thought to include two wild relatives (S. turkestanica Ilj. and S. tetrandra Stev.) of cultivated spinach (S. oleracea L.). In this study, nuclear and chloroplast sequences from 21 accessions of Spinacia germplasm and six spinach cultivars or lines were subjected to phylogenetic analysis to define the relationships among the three species. Maximum-likelihood sequence analysis...
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