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A MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC STUDY ON SOME TURKISH FERULA L. (APIACEAE) SPECIES USING nrDNA ITS SEQUENCES

ZEYNEP ELİBOL^1*, YUSUF MENEMEN¹, MEHMET SAĞIROĞLU² AND HAYRİ DUMAN³

Abstract: nrDNA ITS sequence variation of Ferula species were studied by comparing with the other species of Ferula, Leutea and Dorema  to clarify relationships amongst the taxa and infrageneric delimitation of the genus Ferula. In total, 35 nrDNA ITS sequence accessions (34 species) of  Ferula, Leutea and Dorema  were included in the analyses.  10 of these accessions were newly sequenced and belonged to Turkish species. Possible phylogenetic relationships amongst the species were determined using Maximum parsimony and neighbour joining tree methods. The analyses showed that the genus might be monophyletic upon the addition of Leutea and Dorema, but did not support the classification of the genus dividing into the subgenera.

¹Kırıkkale Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Biyoloji Bölümü, Kırıkkale, Turkey

²Sakarya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Biyoloji Bölümü, Sakarya, Turkey

³Gazi Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Biyoloji Bölümü, Ankara, Turkey

Corresponding author’s e-mail: toprakzade@hotmail.com