Phylogeny of the genus gossypium and genome origin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

 

 

I would like to thank my academic advisor, Dr. Hongbin Zhang, for his full support, 

encouragement, and instruction in my thesis research; and my other committee members, 

Dr. David Stelly, Dr. John Z. Yu, and Dr. David H. Byrne, for their valuable comments 

and suggestions. Appreciation is given to Dr. Edward Percival for his kindly providing 

most of the cotton species used in this study; Dr. Spencer J. Johnston for reviewing and 

correcting the thesis; and Dr. Liangtao Zhang for developing all repetitive DNA 

sequences used in this study. I would also like to acknowledge Dr. Mi-Kyung Lee, Dr. 

Taesik Uhm, Dr. Chengcang Wu, Dr. Yaning Li, Ms. Chantel Scheuring, Dr. Zhangyou 

Xu, Mr. Felips Santos, and Mr. Greg Hess for providing assistance on my research. 

Finally, I would like to express my deep appreciation to my husband, Yiming Jiang, for 

his assistance and encouragement.  

 

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