DCDB
Delphinieae Chromosome Database
An updated on-line database of chromosome data of tribe Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae)
The tribe Delphinieae Warming is a large group within the Ranunculaceae, traditionally including four genera: Aconitum L., Delphinium L., Consolida (DC.) S. F. Gray, and Aconitella Spach. Recent advances in phylogeny proposed a new arrangement of previously recognized groups (Aconitella and Consolida nested within Delphinium, and Staphisagria J. Hill restated as an independent genus, Gymnaconitum (Stapf) Wei Wang & Z. D. Chen separated from Aconitum). More recently, the whole tribe Delphinieae has been confirmed as monophyletic.
The Delphinieae Chromosome Database (DCDB) provides the most complete current available information on published chromosome numbers, ploidy-level estimates and other karyological data of Delphinieae, periodically updated to be useful for general building of cytotaxonomical databases and for specific research ongoing projects of systematics and evolution of Ranunculaceae.
Scope
• Accurate extensive literature and internet survey
• Published chromosome counts worldwide (1889-2022)
• Tribe Delphinieae Warming:
Aconitum L.
Gymnaconitum (Stapf) Wei Wang & Z. D. Chen
Delphinium L. (including Staphisagria Spach)
Consolida (DC.) S.F. Gray
Aconitella Spach.
Authors
Maria Bosch (coord.)
Joan Simon
Jordi López-Pujol
Cèsar Blanché
Recommended citation
Bosch, M., J. Simon, J. López-Pujol & C. Blanché. 2022 onwards. DCDB: Delphinieae Chromosome Database v. 3.1. (last updated: 11.1.2024) http://www.delphinieae.online
DCDB publications
Simon, J., M. Bosch, J. Molero & C. Blanché. 1999. A conspect of chromosome numbers in tribe Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae). Biodiversity Electronic Publications 1 [online] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2445/95875
Bosch, M., J. Simon, J. López-Pujol & C. Blanché. 2016. DCDB: an updated online database of chromosome numbers of tribe Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae). Fl. Medit. 26: 191–201. doi: 10.7320/FlMedit26.191
Bosch, M., J. López-Pujol, C. Blanché & J. Simon. 2023. DCDB: Chromosome Database of Tribe Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae): Structure, Exploitation, and Recent Development. In S. Garcia & N. Nualart (eds.) Plant Genomic and cytogenetic Databases. Methods in molecular biology (N.J. Clifton) 2703: 173–192. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3389-2
Funded partially by Grants 2017SGR1116 and 2021SGR0315