Multiple ITS Copies Reveal Extensive Hybridization within Rheum (Polygonaceae), a Genus That Has Undergone Rapid Radiation

• Dongshi Wan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dongshi Wan, Yongshuai Sun

  Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

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• Yongshuai Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dongshi Wan, Yongshuai Sun

  Affiliations Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China, College of Life Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China

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• Xu Zhang,

  Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

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• Xiaotao Bai,

  Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

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• Jun Wang,

  Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

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• Ailan Wang ,

  * E-mail: tonywan2005@gmail.com

  Affiliations Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China, School of Life and Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong, P. R. China

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• Richard Milne

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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