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The naming of Phragmites haplotypes

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The genus Phragmites includes several species, of which only Phragmites australis has a worldwide distribution. It has been several decades since the last formal taxonomic examination of the genus and a number of recent genetic studies have revealed novel diversity and unique lineages within the genus. In my initial work on genetic variation in Phragmites (Saltonstall in Proc Nat Acad Sci 99:2445–2449, 2002), I came up with a naming scheme for identifying chloroplast DNA haplotypes which combined unique sequences at two loci, designated by numbers, to form haplotypes, designated by letters. Here I describe this naming system in more detail, explain how it has evolved over time as more genetic data has become available, provide a summary of all haplotypes currently available on GenBank, and address some common misunderstandings about how the haplotypes are named.

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Acknowledgments

I thank the many collectors who have sent me samples of Phragmites, the herbaria who have allowed me to sample their collections, and the many agencies who have funded my research over the past 20 years. Carla Lambertini has kindly shared sequences with me and provided feedback on this naming scheme. Laura Geyer and two reviewers provided helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.

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Saltonstall, K. The naming of Phragmites haplotypes. Biol Invasions 18, 2433–2441 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-016-1192-4

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