REU:  Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution in the       Heuchera Group (Saxifragaceae) Using DNA Restriction        Fragment Analysis
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Previous studies of plants in the flowering plant family                Saxifragaceae have used evidence from morphology, chemistry,                    chromosomes, and hybridization experiments. These earlier                       investigations have helped to clarify taxonomic relationships                   among genera in what has traditionally been considered a                        troublesome group. But given the evidence of parallel and                       convergent evolution in morphological and phytochemical                         characters in other plant groups, the phylogenetic affinities of                these saxifrages remain problematic. Dr. Douglas Soltis of                      Washington State University will apply the powerful new methods                 of mutational analysis of chloroplast DNA, and to a lesser                      extent, nuclear ribosomal DNA, to examine evolutionary change                   within this group.                                                                      The goals of Dr. Soltis's molecular systematic analysis are             to: l. construct a phylogenetic framework for the nine genera of                Saxifragaceae under study, including the large genera Heuchera,                 Lithophragma, and Mitella; 2. examine the placement of                          single-species or monotypic genera among such larger, speciose                  genera; and 3. compare the results from this analysis of DNA with               data from other lines of taxonomic evidence such as flavonoid                   chemistry, chromosomes, and floral morphology. In this way, it                  will be possible to assess patterns of evolutionary change in                   morphology, chromosomes, and phytochemistry.
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