Maximum parsimony based resolution of inter-species phylogenetic relationships in Citrus L. (Rutaceae) using ITS of
Mohamed Hamdy Amar1, Ahmed H M Hassan2, Manosh Kumar Biswas3
1Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (MOE) , Wuhan , China ; Desert Research Center, Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank , North Sinai , Egypt.
Abstract:
The present study aims to analyse phylogenetic relationships, using internal transcribed spacer sequence data of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), across 24 Citrus species and close relatives by the evaluation of several parameters such as nucleotide substitution (r), nucleotide diversity (π) and the estimated values of transition/transversion bias (R). The observed results indicated the presence of a wide divergence pattern of rDNA in subfamily Aurantioideae. Maximum parsimony (MP) analysis inferred divergence pattern in the Citrus genus. We observed seven strongly supported clades among the subfamily Aurantioideae. We postulate that the present investigation provides a more robust topology of Citrus and its close relatives, which can significantly prove as an additional support to resolve the phylogenetic relationships in Citrus genera. Therefore, sequences of noncoding regions should exhibit more phylogenetically informative sites than the coding regions do, which is in accordance with the present study.
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