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  <dc:contributor>S. Wyllie-Echeverria</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>David H. Ward</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Jolene R. Rearick</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>George K. Sage</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>B. Chesney</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R. C. Phillips</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Sandra L. Talbot</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2006</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We gathered sequence information from the nuclear 5.8S rDNA gene and associated internal transcribed spacers, ITS-1 and ITS-2 (5.8S rDNA/ITS), and the chloroplast maturase K (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;matK&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) gene, from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zostera&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;samples collected from subtidal habitats in Monterey and Santa Barbara (Isla Vista) bays, California, to test the hypothesis that these plants are conspecific with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Miki of Asia. Sequences from approximately 520 base pairs of the nuclear 5.8S rDNA/ITS obtained from the subtidal Monterey and Isla Vista&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zostera&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;samples were identical to homologous sequences obtained from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. marina&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;collected from intertidal habitats in Japan, Alaska, Oregon and California. Similarly, sequences from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;matK&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;gene from the subtidal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zostera&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;samples were identical to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;matK&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sequences obtained from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. marina&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;collected from intertidal habitats in Japan, Alaska, Oregon and California, but differed from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sequences accessioned into GenBank. This suggests the subtidal plants are conspecific with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. marina&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, not&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;. However, we found that herbarium samples accessioned into the Kyoto University Herbarium, determined to be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, yielded 5.8S rDNA/ITS sequences consistent with either&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. japonica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, in two cases, or&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. marina&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, in one case. Similar results were observed for the chloroplast&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;matK&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;gene; we found haplotypes that were inconsistent with published&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;matK&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sequences from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;collected from Japan. These results underscore the need for closer examination of the relationship between&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. marina&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;along the Pacific Coast of North America, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Z. asiatica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Asia, for the retention and verification of specimens examined in scientific studies, and for assessment of the usefulness of morphological characters in the determination of taxonomic relationships within Zosteraceae.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.aquabot.2006.03.011</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Genetic characterization of &lt;i&gt;Zostera asiatica&lt;/i&gt; on the Pacific Coast of North America</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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