Worldwide phylogeny and biogeography of Cardamine flexuosa (Brassicaceae) and its relatives

Abstract

Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography, and taxonomy of a group of taxa putatively related to the tetraploid Cardamine flexuosa were explored using sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region of nrDNA (ITS) and the trnL-trnF region of cpDNA.

Keywords

• Brassicaceae
• cpDNA
• Cruciferae
• DNA sequencing
• nrDNA ITS
• phylogeography
• polyploidy
• nuclear ribosomal dna
• chloroplast dna
• postglacial colonization
• reconstructing patterns
• phenotypic plasticity
• molecular systematics
• reticulate evolution
• sequence data
• plants