BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Do potatoes and tomatoes have a single evolutionary history, and what proportion of the genome supports this history?

Flor Rodriguez1, Feinan Wu2, Cécile Ané3, Steve Tanksley2 and David M Spooner1*

Author Affiliations

1 USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Department of Horticulture, 1575 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1590, USA

2 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Department of Plant Biology, 248 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

3 Department of Statistics, Department of Botany, 1300 University Ave., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1590, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:191 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-191

Published: 7 August 2009

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Species examined; their superseries and series relationships within sect.Petota, endosperm balance number (EBN), genomes and plastid DNA clade relationships.

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The 40 COSII oligonucleotide primers screened in this study.

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The 19 COSII markers used in this study and their characteristics.

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NCBI sequence database accession numbers.

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