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Great Basin Naturalist Volume 58 Number 1 Article 13 1-30-1998 Full Issue, Vol. 58 No. 1 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn Recommended Citation (1998) "Full Issue, Vol. 58 No. 1," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 58 : No. 1 , Article 13. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol58/iss1/13 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Basin Naturalist by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. T H E GREAT BASIN naturalistnaturalist moe A VOLUME 58 n2naN I1 JANUARY 1998 BRIGHAM YOUNG university GREAT BASIN naturalist httpwwwlibbyuedu amsnms editor assistant editor RICHARD W BAUMANN NATHAN M SMITH 290 MLBM 190 MLBM PO box 20200 PO box 26879 brigham young university brigham young university provo UT 84602020084602 0200 provo UT 84602687984602 6879 8013785053801 378 5053 8013786688801 378 6688 FAX 8013783733801 378 3733 emailE mail nmshbllibyuedunmshbll1byuedu associate editors BRUCE D ESHELMAN STANLEY D SMITH department of biological sciences university of department of biology wisconsin whitewater whitewater w1WIwa 53190 university of nevada las vegas las vegas NV 89154400489154 4004 JEFFREY J JOHANSEN department of biology john carroll university PAUL T TUELLER university heights OH 44118 department of environmental resource sciences university of nevada reno 1000 valley road BORIS C reno kondratieff reno NV 89512 department of entomology colorado state university fort 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appp 1 11 TAXONOMY OF sphaeromeria ARTEMISIA AND TANACETUM compositae anthemideae BASED ON RANDOMLY AMPLIFIED polymorphic DNA RAPD E durant McMcArthurarthuriArthurl1 reneerenge van Buren233 stewart C SandersoSandersonsandersonlsanderson1nl1 and kimball T harper2harpere ABSTRACT relationships within between and among the anthemideae genera sphaeromeria artemisia and tanacetum were investigated using 238 randomly amplified polymorphic DNA RAPD markers obtained from twenty lomer10 mer primers amplified on genomic DNA forty one populations from 16 taxa 15 species were studied jaccard s coefficient of similarity and UPGMA clustering analysis were used to construct phonophenogramsphonogramsgrams T tests were used to make comparisons between samples at various systematic levels DNA markers were 75 similar for conspecific populations sixteen sphaeromeriasphaeromena populations 5 species showed an average interspecific similarity of 21 interspecific similarity among 23 artemisia populations 8 species with 2 subspecies of A tntritrldentata included averaged 27 two tanacetum species 1 I1 population each were 89 similar the high similarity of the tanacetum species was in the range of observed values for conspecific populations indeed those 2 species T vulgare and T boreale have been considered conspecific by some authors the 3 subgenerasub genera of artemisia studied artemisia dracunculus and tndentataetridentataeTridentatae formed separate groups in comparisons among the genera sphaeromeriasphaeromena was 18 similar to artemisia more similar to subgenus tri- dentdentataeatae than the other artemisia subgenerasub genera interintergenericmtergenencgeneriegeneric comparisons of sphaeromeriasphaeromena and artemisia and artemisia and tanacetum each were found to be 7 similar to each other thus based on DNA markers sphaeromeriasphaeromena is more similar to artemisia than it is to tanacetum which supports previously established morphological distinctions sphaeromeriasphaeromena potentilloides may be misplaced in the genus sphaeromenasphaeromeria based on DNA marker resultsi it is likely that north american anthemideae are circumboreal derivatives of ancestral eurasian stock and that sphaeromeriasphaeromena is derived from an artemisia likeilke ancestor key words sphaeromenaspbaeromeria artemisia tanacetum anthemideae RAPD taxonomy two decades ago holmgren et al 1976 duceddeuced the taxon to subgeneric status section published an intriguing article sphaeromesphaeroma sphaeromeriasphaeromerid in the genus tanacetum sahaesphae ria a genus closer to artemisia than to tanace- romeria endemic to western north america tum asteraceae anthemideae in their article Hohnholmgrengren et al 1976 mcarthur et al 1989 holmgrenho1mgren et al 1976 returned sphaeromeria cronquist 1994 consists of 9 species 8 of to the generic rank first proposed by nuttall them rare several authors have noted that an 1841 torrey and gray 1843 however re understanding of relationships between and 1 shrub1shrub sciences laboratoqlaboratory rocky mountain research station forest service united states department of agricultureofagriculture 735 N 500 E provo UT 84606 department of botany and range science brigham young university provo UT 84602 spiesent3presentSpie seatsent address department of life science utah valley state college orem UT 84058 1 2 GREAT BASIN naturalist volume 58 within the genera artemisia and tanacetum were grown in our greenhouse from seed ob- would be enhanced by new information on the tained from european colleagues table 1 we distribution and phylogeny of that portion of collected samples between may and august the tribe anthemideae hall and clements 1995 inm most cases 3 populations range 1 4 1923 holmgren et al 1976 mcarthur 1979 for each taxon by combining tissue young meartmcarthurMcArthuihul et al 1989 leaves from 30 healthy but otherwise ran- artemisia is the largest genus of anthem- domly chosen individuals of each population ideae consisting of 250 or more species divided we obtained a bulked sample for each popu- into 4 subgenerasubgencrasubgenera it is distributed mostly in lation leaves were collected in nylon bags temperate portions of the northern hemisphere immersed immediately in liquid nitrogen and but also in south america and south africa transported to the laboratory where they were willis 1973 bailey HorthortonumhortoriumHortooriumorlumnum staff 1976 stored at ultra cold temperatures 80c800csoc until greger 1978 mcarthur 1979 mcarthur et al DNA was extracted herbarium voucher spec- 1981 ling 1995a tanacetum consists of some imensamens are deposited in the shrub sciences 50 species with a eurasian distribution except laboratory SSLP or the brigham young uni- for the T bipinnatumbipinnatum complex which is cir-circlr versity BRY herbaria following methods of cumcumpolarpolar willis 1973 bailey HorthortonumhortoriumHortooriumorlumnum staff mcarthur and sanderson 1985 we made a 1976 mcarthur 1979 kyhos and raven 1982 chromosome count from root tips of sahaesphae here we address relationships among the romeriaromena diversidiversifoliadzversifohafolia to extend the cytological genera sphaeromeriasphaeromena artemisia and tanace- knowledge base in sphaeromenasphaeromeria several but tum using genomic DNA markers from repre- not all sphaeromenasphaeromeria species are cytologically sentativesentative species from each genus we also re- known powell et al 1974 sanderson et al view species and generic distributions 1984 mcarthur et al 1989 randomly amplified polymorphic DNA DNA and amplification RAPD analysis has been shown to be useful extraction in studying plant population biology in pre- bulked leaf samples were thoroughly mixed paring genetic maps and in classifying plants and a sample weighing 030.30 3 050.50 5 g from each williams et al 1990 1993 dawson et al 1993 population was used for DNA extractioneftiexti action russell et al 1993 williams
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