| Title |
Barcoding success as a function of phylogenetic relatedness in Viburnum, a clade of woody angiosperms
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-12-73 |
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| Authors |
Wendy L Clement, Michael J Donoghue |
| Abstract |
The chloroplast genes matK and rbcL have been proposed as a "core" DNA barcode for identifying plant species. Published estimates of successful species identification using these loci (70-80%) may be inflated because they may have involved comparisons among distantly related species within target genera. To assess the ability of the proposed two-locus barcode to discriminate closely related species, we carried out a hierarchically structured set of comparisons within Viburnum, a clade of woody angiosperms containing ca. 170 species (some 70 of which are currently used in horticulture). For 112 Viburnum species, we evaluated rbcL + matK, as well as the chloroplast regions rpl32-trnL, trnH-psbA, trnK, and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (nrITS). |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 19% |
| Researcher | 17 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 19 | 22% |
| Unknown | 12 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 51 | 58% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 2% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 15 | 17% |