One of the most popular sequences for phylogenetic inference at the generic and
infrageneric levels in plants is the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the 18S–5.8 S …

Polyploidy is a prominent process in plants and has been significant in the evolutionary
history of vertebrates and other eukaryotes. In plants, interdisciplinary approaches …

Invasive species are of great interest to evolutionary biologists and ecologists because they
represent historical examples of dramatic evolutionary and ecological change. Likewise …

The internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of the nuclear ribosomal 18S–5.8 S–26S cistron
continue to be the most popular non-plastid region for species-level phylogenetic studies of …

Nuclei of arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi have been described as highly diverse due to
their asexual nature and absence of a single cell stage with only one nucleus. This has …

Many early reports of ITS region (ITS 1, 5.8 S, and ITS 2) variation in flowering plants
indicated that nrDNA arrays within individuals are homogeneous. However, both older and …

Less than a decade ago, we proposed that hybridization could serve as a stimulus for the
evolution of invasiveness in plants (Ellstrand and Schierenbeck Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 97 …

We compared patterns of intraspecific polymorphism of two markers with contrasted modes
of evolution, nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), in the …

Molecular approaches have revolutionized our ability to study the ecology and evolution of
micro‐organisms. Among the most widely used genetic markers for these studies are genes …

DNA barcoding is the process of identification of species based on nucleotide diversity of
short DNA segments. It is well established in animals with the introduction of cytochrome c …