Acer.
ITS 1 sequences in twenty-eight species of Acer and a species of Dipteronia in the family Aceraceae ranged from 220 to 242 bp and ITS 2 sequences from 215 to 251 bp. The size of the 5.8S coding region was 164 bp for all species examined in the family. Phylogenetic analysis of ITS sequences placed a very robust clade of section Palmata at the base of the tree. Three species of section Parviflora sensu de Jong (1994), A. spicatum, A. distylum and A. nipponicum, did not form a monophyletic clade. Acer spicatum was separated from the robust clade of A. distylum and A. nipponicum. Molecular tree strongly supports the close relationship among section Platanoidea, Glabra series Arguta, and section Macrantha. The close relationship between sections Pentaphylla and Trifoliata was also strongly suggested in ITS tree. Sections Rubra and Hyptiocarpa appeared to be closely allied with each other. The average rate of nucleotide substitution was estimated as (8.0±1.9)×10−11 substitutions per site per year for ITS 1 and (9.0±1.6) ×10−11 for ITS 2.
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Received 17 December 1999/ Accepted in revised form 10 March 2000
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Suh, Y., Heo, K. & Park, CW. Phylogenetic Relationships of Maples (Acer L.; Aceraceae) Implied by Nuclear Ribosomal ITS Sequences. J Plant Res 113, 193–202 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013914
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