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Ltridentata .divaricata L. var. oohltcadevolutionarily and monophyletic arenaria ae nfo yoer,and cytometry, flow on based n ot mrcntx but taxa American South and ot mrcnpopulations American North . 2 octtpsco-occur cytotypes Do (2) ? var. Larrea .D esn,hsrecently has Benson), D. L. arenaria .tridentata L. pce?()I the Is (4) species? .divaricata L. distinguished , Larrea h species the , rt test to or ,which Delivered by Publishing Technology to: Michael Simpson IP: 146.244.235.168 on: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:24:45 Copyright (c) American Society for Plant Taxonomists. All rights reserved. ouain r eoie tteRnh at n oai Garden Botanic Ana Santa Rancho Ana the 1). Santa (Appendix at California Claremont, (Rancho Herbarium, deposited sampled (Arizona-Sonora Takara for are Devender specimens J. populations Voucher Van California). and Claremont, T. 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Q1 outgroup 25 and and primers ingroup performed 17 (Markos the We of sample Ast-1 using representative a and ITS for 1998), 18S-ETS and external primers 2001), ribosomal the addi- nuclear Baldwin In the using amplified (2008). spacer we al. and regions, et transcribed cpDNA Thermocycling Ramsey the by to Massachusetts). described tion as Ipswich, performed were Biolabs, clean-up England New dard ape 02 go iiapeevdtsu a sd eamplified ( We regions used. (cpDNA) was each tissue For chloroplast (QIAGEN). silica-preserved non-coding kit of five plant mg DNeasy 10–20 QIAGEN sample, the using 40 from specimens plants 2–3 peak of sample DNA the between all ratio of the contents by peak. DNA pg control and 2C 5.2 calculated multiplying We by Software specimens Biosciences). 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