Claim · model-written summary
Elymus trachycaulus and Elytrigia elongata share the (CCATA)3 locus.
- Taxon
- Elymus trachycaulus
Elymus trachycauluse0 - Gene
- (CCATA)3e0
- Outcome
- locuse0
- Comparator
- Elytrigia elongatae0
Verbatim
e0“Elymus trachycaulus and Elytrigia elongata share the locus (CCATA)3”
Title
Wenxuan Pan; Weihong Yan; Zhiyong Li; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-33570-x
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation The Agropyron chloroplast genome has a typical quadripartite structure.
- Observation The Agropyron chloroplast genome ranges in size from 135 to 137 kb.
- Observation The Agropyron chloroplast genome contains 131 genes.
- Observation The rps12 and ycf3 genes show high variability in Agropyron chloroplast genomes.
- Observation The intergenic regions of the Agropyron chloroplast genome have a GC content of 43.91% to 44.01%.
- Observation SSR and scattered repetitive sequences differ significantly among Agropyron and closely related species.
- Observation The (ATATA)3 locus is unique to Elytrigia elongata.
- Observation Elymus trachycaulus lacks rps12 gene intron variation.
- Observation Most Agropyron species form monophyletic clades.
- Association Elymus trachycaulus clusters closely with Elytrigia elongata in the phylogeny.
- Mechanism Shared characteristics such as high GC content in the intercalary region explain the close clustering of Elymus trachycaulus with Elytrigia elongata.
- Observation Elymus trachycaulus is placed into the narrow-spike clade by combined morphological and molecular evidence.
- Method / resource SSR locus combination patterns in the chloroplast genome can serve as a candidate basis for molecular-assisted taxonomic identification of the broad-spike and narrow-spike clades.
