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The First Comprehensive Phylogeny of Coptis (Ranunculaceae) and Its Implications for Character Evolution and Classification.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Xiang Kun-Li, Wu Sheng-Dan, Yu Sheng-Xian, Liu Yang, Jabbour Florian, Erst Andrey S, Zhao Liang, Wang Wei, Chen Zhi-Duan
Abstract excerpt
Coptis (Ranunculaceae) contains 15 species and is one of the pharmaceutically most important plant genera in eastern Asia. Understanding of the evolution of morphological characters and phylogenetic relationships within the genus is very limited. Here, we present the first comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the genus based on two plastid and one nuclear markers. The phylogeny was reconstructed using Bayesian...
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