Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Volume 23 | Issue 1 Article 27 2007 A Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of the Grass Subfamily Pooideae (Poaceae), with Attention to Structural Features of the Plastid and Nuclear Genomes, Including an Intron Loss in GBSSI Jerrold I Davis Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Robert J. Soreng Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso Part of the Botany Commons, and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons Recommended Citation Davis, Jerrold I and Soreng, Robert J. (2007) "A Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of the Grass Subfamily Pooideae (Poaceae), with Attention to Structural Features of the Plastid and Nuclear Genomes, Including an Intron Loss in GBSSI," Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany: Vol. 23: Iss. 1, Article 27. Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso/vol23/iss1/27 Aliso 23, pp. 335–348 ᭧ 2007, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden A PRELIMINARY PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE GRASS SUBFAMILY POOIDEAE (POACEAE), WITH ATTENTION TO STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE PLASTID AND NUCLEAR GENOMES, INCLUDING AN INTRON LOSS IN GBSSI JERROLD IDAVIS1,3 AND ROBERT J. SORENG2 1L. H. Bailey Hortorium and Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; 2Department of Botany and U. S. National Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA, (
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[email protected]) ABSTRACT Phylogenetic relationships in the grass family (Poaceae), with specific attention to the internal structure of subfamily Pooideae, are analyzed on the basis of nucleotide sequence variation in plastid- encoded genes (matK, ndhF, ndhH, and rbcL).