Dissertation Research: Molecular Systematics of Cyclotella

硅藻叶绿体DNA的分支分析将是 对小环藻（Cyclotella meneghiniana）组（包括3- 5种）。 这些中心硅藻的形态 没有产生令人满意的分类或系谱， 该项目将提供一个独立的分子数据集， 影响这些问题。 这一类群系统学的分子方法 由于它们的化石记录和它们的用途， 作为生态指标。 DNA限制性酶切位点图将 也增加了植物分子数据的增长基础， 最终将以植物生殖系统的合成为基础。

A cladistic analysis of diatom chloroplast DNA will be performed on the Cyclotella meneghiniana group (inluding three to perhaps five species). The morphology of these centric diatoms has not produced a satisfactory classification or genealogy, and this project will provide an independent molecular dataset impacting on these questions. The molecular approach to the systematics of this group has wider importance because of their fossil record and their utility as an ecological indicator. The DNA restriction site map will also add to the growing base of plant molecular data, on which a synthesis of plant phylogeny will eventually be based.