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Phylogenetic relationships within Hevea brasiliensis as deduced from a polymorphic mitochondrial DNA region
1Unité de Biochimie Physiologique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud 2-20, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Abstract:
We have cloned a 4.5-kb mtDNA fragment showing a high RFLP polymorphism between various Hevea genotypes. Subcloning and sequencing of a 1.4-kb segment of this clone allowed us to design PCR amplification primers to isolate homologous mtDNA segments of about 0.9 kb from 23 representative genotypes of Hevea. Complete sequences from 4 genotypes showed between 6.7% and 20.2% of nucleotide diversity, suggesting the presence of a hypervariable, or hotspot, region. A sequence of 345 nucleotides within this region was determined for the 23 genotypes. The phylogenetic relationships inferred from the sequence comparison are in general agreement with the results obtained from mtDNA RFLP analysis, indicating that this polymorphic mtDNA region is a useful molecular marker for phylogenetic analysis within Hevea.
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