Extensive Pyrosequencing Reveals Frequent Intra-Genomic Variations of Internal Transcribed Spacer Regions of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Song, Jingyuan ^a   Shi, Linchun ^a   Li, Dezhu ^b   Sun, Yongzhen ^a   Niu, Yunyun ^a   Chen, Zhiduan ^c   Luo, Hongmei ^a   Pang, Xiaohui ^a   Sun, Zhiying ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Lv, Aiping ^d   Deng, Youping ^e   Larson Rabin, Zachary ^b   Wilkinson, Mike ^f   Chen, Shilin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARALIACEAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS GIRALDII; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENUS; GINSENG; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MAIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PYROSEQUENCING; RICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARALIACEAE; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS GIRALDII; PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 84865593212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043971     Document Type: Article

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