Public genomic databases have provided new directions for molecular marker development
and initiated a shift in the types of PCR-based techniques commonly used in plant science …

Aquatic plant invasions are often associated with long‐distance dispersal of vegetative
propagules and prolific clonal reproduction. These reproductive features combined with …

GeneMarker® HID was assessed as a software tool for the analysis of forensic short tandem
repeat (STR) data and as a resource for analysis of custom STR multiplexes. The software is …

Abstract Lemna sect. Uninerves Hegelm. consists of three species, Lemna minuta Kunth
(synonym L. minuscula), L. valdiviana Phil. and L. yungensis Landolt. Lemna yungensis was …

Despite much discussion of the importance of quantifying and reporting genotyping error in
molecular studies, it is still not standard practice in the literature. This is particularly a …

Background Since the transfer and application of modern sequencing technologies to the
analysis of amplified fragment-length polymorphisms (AFLP), evolutionary biologists have …

Abstract Puya (Bromeliaceae), with> 200 species, is a classic example of a recent, rapid
species-level radiation in the Andes. To assess the biogeographical history of this primarily …

Background Character matrices with extensive missing data are frequently used in
phylogenomics with potentially detrimental effects on the accuracy and robustness of tree …

Two groups of subspecies of the door snail Charpentieria itala are distributed in a mosaic
pattern in the Southern Alps. Some subspecies that morphologically resemble Charpentieria …

Duckweeds, the fastest growing angiosperms, are gaining increasing attention with respect
to their practical applications. Different clones of the same duckweed species vary in their …