“…In the literature, there are quite a number of valuable molecular studies (e.g., Wojciechowski et al, 1993;Sanderson and Wojciechowski, 1996;Dong et al, 2003b;, 2005Wojciechowski, 2005;Scherson et al, 2008;Kazemi et al, 2009;Dizkirici et al, 2014) indicating the phylogenetic relationships among Astragalus species, while there are few studies (Jorgensen et al, 2003;Archambault and Stromvik, 2012; dealing with the molecular phylogeny of the genus Oxytropis. There is no study dealing with native Oxytropis species although Turkey is one of the diversity centers for both taxa.…”