Last week I got an email from Ryan Batten, someone I have never met, saying "...I was pretty intrigued by your paper last year citing P. picta* and happy you were able to resolve it this year. I thought I would pass along the following record in case it is of interest as a range …
conflicting phylogenies
I am working on a project concerning Pyrola from the Pacific Northwest-- as justification for the recognition of a new species, I am comparing the nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies for PNW Pyrola picta (green), P. "crypta" (yellow), P. dentata (blue), and P. aphylla (red). At first I thought that samples falling at the base of …
Cascadian species of Pyrola
While trying to understand relationships among populations of Pyrola picta by comparing DNA sequences, I came across a group of sequences that seemed to be divergent from the rest. The DNA sequences corresponded, at least loosely, to populations in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, Oregon, and northern California (Fig. 1) of plants that look like …
Jolles Lab 