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Mazuecos-Aguilera I, Suárez-Santiago VN. Identification of Candidate Genes Involved in the Determinism of Pollen Grain Aperture Morphology by Comparative Transcriptome Analysis in Papaveraceae. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:1570. [PMID: 37050196 PMCID: PMC10096813 DOI: 10.3390/plants12071570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In the last decade, certain genes involved in pollen aperture formation have been discovered. However, those involved in pollen aperture shape remain largely unknown. In Arabidopsis, the interaction during the tetrad development stage of one member of the ELMOD protein family, ELMOD_E, with two others, MCR/ELMOD_B and ELMOD_A, can change the morphology of apertures from colpus (elongated) to pore (round). Here, comparative transcriptome analysis is used to identify candidate genes involved in the determination of pollen aperture morphology in Papaveraceae (order Ranunculales). Furthermore, the role of ELMOD genes in the genetic determinism of aperture shape was tested by comparative analysis of their expression levels using RNA-seq data and RT-qPCR. Two pairs of species belonging to two different subfamilies were used. Within each pair, one species has colpate pollen and the other porate (Fumarioideae-Dactylicapnos torulosa, 6-colpate, and Fumaria bracteosa, pantoporate; Papaveroideae-Eschsholzia californica, 5-7 colpate, and Roemeria refracta, 6-porate). The transcriptomes were obtained at the tetrad stage of pollen development. A total of 531 DEGs were found between the colpate and porate pollen species groups. The results from RNA-seq and RT-qPCR indicate that pollen aperture shape is not determined by the relative expression levels of ELMOD family genes in Papaveraceae. However, genes related to callose wall formation or cytoskeleton organisation were found, these processes being involved in pollen aperture formation. In addition, transcriptomes from anthers with pollen during the tetrad stage of three species (D. torulosa, R. refracta, and F. bracteosa) were obtained for the first time. These data will be available for further studies in the field of floral evolution and development.
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Ben-Menni Schuler S, Picazo-Aragonés J, Rumsey FJ, Romero-García AT, Suárez-Santiago VN. Macaronesia Acts as a Museum of Genetic Diversity of Relict Ferns: The Case of Diplazium caudatum (Athyriaceae). Plants 2021; 10:plants10112425. [PMID: 34834788 PMCID: PMC8623695 DOI: 10.3390/plants10112425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Macaronesia has been considered a refuge region of the formerly widespread subtropical lauroid flora that lived in Southern Europe during the Tertiary. The study of relict angiosperms has shown that Macaronesian relict taxa preserve genetic variation and revealed general patterns of colonization and dispersal. However, information on the conservation of genetic diversity and range dynamics rapidly diminishes when referring to pteridophytes, despite their dominance of the herbaceous stratum in the European tropical palaeoflora. Here we aim to elucidate the pattern of genetic diversity and phylogeography of Diplazium caudatum, a hypothesized species of the Tertiary Palaeotropical flora and currently with its populations restricted across Macaronesia and disjunctly in the Sierras de Algeciras (Andalusia, southern Iberian Peninsula). We analysed 12 populations across the species range using eight microsatellite loci, sequences of a region of plastid DNA, and carry out species-distribution modelling analyses. Our dating results confirm the Tertiary origin of this species. The Macaronesian archipelagos served as a refuge during at least the Quaternary glacial cycles, where populations of D. caudatum preserved higher levels of genetic variation than mainland populations. Our data suggest the disappearance of the species in the continent and the subsequent recolonization from Macaronesia. The results of the AMOVA analysis and the indices of clonal diversity and linkage disequilibrium suggest that D. caudatum is a species in which inter-gametophytic outcrossing predominates, and that in the Andalusian populations there was a shift in mating system toward increased inbreeding and/or clonality. The model that best explains the genetic diversity distribution pattern observed in Macaronesia is, the initial and recurrent colonization between islands and archipelagos and the relatively recent diversification of restricted area lineages, probably due to the decrease of favorable habitats and competition with lineages previously established. This study extends to ferns the concept of Macaronesia archipelagos as refugia for genetic variation.
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- Samira Ben-Menni Schuler
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (S.B.-M.S.); (J.P.-A.); (A.T.R.-G.)
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (S.B.-M.S.); (J.P.-A.); (A.T.R.-G.)
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (S.B.-M.S.); (J.P.-A.); (A.T.R.-G.)
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (S.B.-M.S.); (J.P.-A.); (A.T.R.-G.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-958-248814
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Mazuecos-Aguilera I, Romero-García AT, Klodová B, Honys D, Fernández-Fernández MC, Ben-Menni Schuler S, Dobritsa AA, Suárez-Santiago VN. The Role of INAPERTURATE POLLEN1 as a Pollen Aperture Factor Is Conserved in the Basal Eudicot Eschscholzia californica (Papaveraceae). Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:701286. [PMID: 34305989 PMCID: PMC8294094 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.701286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Pollen grains show an enormous variety of aperture systems. What genes are involved in the aperture formation pathway and how conserved this pathway is in angiosperms remains largely unknown. INAPERTURATE POLLEN1 (INP1) encodes a protein of unknown function, essential for aperture formation in Arabidopsis, rice and maize. Yet, because INP1 sequences are quite divergent, it is unclear if their function is conserved across angiosperms. Here, we conducted a functional study of the INP1 ortholog from the basal eudicot Eschscholzia californica (EcINP1) using expression analyses, virus-induced gene silencing, pollen germination assay, and transcriptomics. We found that EcINP1 expression peaks at the tetrad stage of pollen development, consistent with its role in aperture formation, which occurs at that stage, and showed, via gene silencing, that the role of INP1 as an important aperture factor extends to basal eudicots. Using germination assays, we demonstrated that, in Eschscholzia, apertures are dispensable for pollen germination. Our comparative transcriptome analysis of wild-type and silenced plants identified over 900 differentially expressed genes, many of them potential candidates for the aperture pathway. Our study substantiates the importance of INP1 homologs for aperture formation across angiosperms and opens up new avenues for functional studies of other aperture candidate genes.
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- Laboratory of Pollen Biology, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Pollen Biology, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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Ben-Menni Schuler S, López-Pujol J, Blanca G, Vilatersana R, Garcia-Jacas N, Suárez-Santiago VN. Influence of the Quaternary Glacial Cycles and the Mountains on the Reticulations in the Subsection Willkommia of the Genus Centaurea. Front Plant Sci 2019; 10:303. [PMID: 30949188 PMCID: PMC6437100 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Late Neogene and Quaternary climatic oscillations have greatly shaped the genetic structure of the Mediterranean Basin flora, with mountain plant species tracking warm interglacials/cold glacials by means of altitudinal shifts instead of broad latitudinal ones. Such dynamics may have enhanced population divergence but also secondary contacts. In this paper, we use a case example of subsection Willkommia of Centaurea (comprising three narrowly distributed endemic species, Centaurea gadorensis, C. pulvinata, and C. sagredoi) to test for reticulate evolution and recurrent hybridizations between nearby populations. For this, we combine analyses of genetic diversity and structuring, gene flow and spatial correlation, and ecological niche modeling. Our results support the contention that the current genetic structure of the three species is the result of historical gene flow at sites of secondary contact during the glacial periods, followed by isolation after the retraction of populations to the middle-upper areas of the mountains during the interglacial periods. The extent and direction of the gene flow was determined largely by the location of the populations on mountainsides oriented toward the same valley or toward different valleys, suggesting the intermountain valleys as the areas where secondary contacts occurred.
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- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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Pérez-Gutiérrez MA, Fernández MC, Salinas-Bonillo MJ, Suárez-Santiago VN, Ben-Menni Schuler S, Romero-García AT. Comparative exine development from the post-tetrad stage in the early-divergent lineages of Ranunculales: the genera Euptelea and Pteridophyllum. J Plant Res 2016; 129:1085-1096. [PMID: 27590132 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-016-0862-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 07/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Studies of pollen wall development produce a great deal of morphological data that supplies useful information regarding taxonomy and systematics. We present the exine development of Euptelea and Pteridophyllum, two taxa whose pollen wall development has never previously been studied using transmission electron microscopy. Both genera are representatives of the two earliest-diverging families of the order Ranunculales and their pollen data are important for the diagnosis of the ancestral pollen features in eudicots. Our observations show these genera are defined by having microechinate microreticulate exine ornamentation, perforate tectum, columellate morphology of the infratectum and the existence of a foot layer and endexine. The presence of lamellations is detected during the early stages of development in the nexine of both genera, especially in the apertures. Euptelea presents remains of the primexine layer during the whole maturation process, a very thin foot layer, and a laminate exinous oncus in the apertural region formed by ectexine and endexine elements. Pteridophyllum has a thicker tectum than Euptelea, a continuous foot layer and a thicker endexine. In the apertures, the exinous oncus is formed by islets and granules of endexine, in contrast to the Euptelea apertures. The secretory tapetum produces orbicules in both genera, but they have different morphology and electron-density. Comparisons with pollen data from related orders and families confirm the ancestral states for the pollen of eudicots proposed in previous studies: reticulate and echinate surfaces, columellate infractectum and a thin foot layer relative to the thickness of the ectexine. According to our observations, we propose considering the possibility of a polymorphic state for the aperture number in the ancestor of Ranunculales, and suggest the development of orbicules as the ancestral state in this order.
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- Miguel A Pérez-Gutiérrez
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almería, C/Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain
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García-López MDC, Schuler SBM, López-Flores I, Nieto-Lugilde M, Terrón-Camero L, Aguilera IM, Suárez-Santiago VN. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Killarney Fern (Vandenboschia speciosa, Hymenophyllaceae). Appl Plant Sci 2015; 3:apps1500067. [PMID: 26649267 PMCID: PMC4651631 DOI: 10.3732/apps.1500067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY We characterize 10 microsatellite loci in the endangered fern Vandenboschia speciosa (Hymenophyllaceae), enabling studies on the genetic population structure of this Macaronesian-European species using DNA hypervariable markers. METHODS AND RESULTS Ten primer sets were developed and tested on 47 individuals in a total of two Iberian populations of V. speciosa. The primers amplified di- and hexanucelotide repeats. The number of alleles ranged from two to eight, and the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.107 to 0.807 among the populations analyzed. CONCLUSIONS The 10 microsatellite markers developed will be useful in characterizing the genetic diversity of V. speciosa and understanding its population structure (including the possible structure between sporophyte and gametophyte phases) and biogeographic history, and will provide important genetic data for the conservation of this species.
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- M. del Carmen García-López
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Calle Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Pérez-Gutiérrez MA, Romero-García AT, Fernández MC, Blanca G, Salinas-Bonillo MJ, Suárez-Santiago VN. Evolutionary history of fumitories (subfamily Fumarioideae, Papaveraceae): An old story shaped by the main geological and climatic events in the Northern Hemisphere. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2015; 88:75-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2014] [Revised: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mavrodiev EV, Chester M, Suárez-Santiago VN, Visger CJ, Rodriguez R, Susanna A, Baldini RM, Soltis PS, Soltis DE. Multiple origins and chromosomal novelty in the allotetraploid Tragopogon castellanus (Asteraceae). New Phytol 2015; 206:1172-1183. [PMID: 25557021 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2014] [Accepted: 11/10/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Tragopogon includes two classic examples of recently formed allopolyploid species in North America: T. mirus and T. miscellus. Older Tragopogon allotetraploids from Eurasia offer ideal taxa for comparing the longer term outcomes of allopolyploidy. To help resolve the ancestry of one of these older polyploids, phylogenetic analyses of multiple populations of the allotetraploid T. castellanus (2n = 24) and its putative diploid parents, T. crocifolius and T. lamottei, were conducted using sequences from nuclear (internal transcribed spacer, ITS; and alcohol dehydrogenase 1A, Adh) and plastid (trnT-trnL spacer, trnL intron, trnL-trnF spacer and rpl16 intron) loci. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) were used to investigate the chromosomal constitution of T. castellanus. Our data confirm that the widely distributed T. crocifolius and the Iberian endemic, T. lamottei, are the diploid parents of T. castellanus, and that this polyploid formed at least three times. One group of populations of T. castellanus is distinct in exhibiting two pairs of rearranged chromosomes. These data suggest that some of the chromosomal variants that originate in young polyploids (here, an intergenomic translocation) may become fixed in populations, contributing to novelty in older polyploid lineages. The geographical distributions of the allopolyploids and parents are also complex, with allotetraploid populations being disjunct from one or both of the most closely related diploid parental populations.
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- Evgeny V Mavrodiev
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia, s.n., ES-08038, Barcelona, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Biologia & Centro Studi Erbario Tropicale, Università degli Studi, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121, Firenze, Italy
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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del Bosque MEQ, López-Flores I, Suárez-Santiago VN, Garrido-Ramos MA. Satellite-DNA diversification and the evolution of major lineages in Cardueae (Carduoideae Asteraceae). J Plant Res 2014; 127:575-583. [PMID: 25030895 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-014-0648-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In a previous work, we characterized the HinfI satellite DNA family in the subtribe Centaureinae (Cardueae) demonstrating that a "library" of eight HinfI subfamilies would exist in the common ancestor of all Centaureinae, which were differentially amplified in different lineages. Now, we extend our study by analyzing a total of 219 additional repeats from fifteen species belonging to Carlininae, Echinopsinae and Carduinae, and comparing them to those of Centaureinae. Most HinfI sequences belonged to the subfamily II, although a few sequences of other subfamilies were detected in some species. Additionally, a new subfamily characteristic of several Carduinae species was discovered. Although phylogenetic trees grouped sequences by subfamily affinity instead of species provenance, when comparing repeats of the same subfamily, the degree of divergence between any pair of sequences was related to the evolutionary distance between the species compared in most cases. Exceptions were in comparisons between sequences of some Centaureinae species, and between sequences of some Carduinae species and those of Centaureinae. Our results demonstrate that: (1) At least nine HinfI subfamilies would exist in the common ancestor of Cardueae, each one differentially amplified in different lineages; (2) After differential spreading, sequences of each subfamily evolved concertedly through molecular drive, resulting in the gradual divergence of repeats between different species; (3) The rate to which concerted evolution occurred was different between lineages according to the evolutionary history of each one.
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Hilpold A, Vilatersana R, Susanna A, Meseguer AS, Boršić I, Constantinidis T, Filigheddu R, Romaschenko K, Suárez-Santiago VN, Tugay O, Uysal T, Pfeil BE, Garcia-Jacas N. Phylogeny of the Centaurea group (Centaurea, Compositae) - geography is a better predictor than morphology. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2014; 77:195-215. [PMID: 24784974 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2014] [Revised: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The Centaurea group is part of the Circum-Mediterranean Clade (CMC) of genus Centaurea subgenus Centaurea, a mainly Mediterranean plant group with more than 200 described species. The group is traditionally split on morphological basis into three sections: Centaurea, Phalolepis and Willkommia. This division, however, is doubtful, especially in light of molecular approaches. In this study we try to resolve this phylogenetic problem and to consolidate the circumscription and delimitation of the entire group against other closely related groups. We analyzed nuclear (internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal genes) and chloroplast (rpl32-trnL intergenic spacer) DNA regions for most of the described species of the Centaurea group using phylogenetic and network approaches, and we checked the data for recombination. Phylogeny was used to reconstruct the evolution of the lacerate-membranaceous bract appendages using parsimony. The magnitude of incomplete lineage sorting was tested estimating the effective population sizes. Molecular dating was performed using a Bayesian approach, and the ancestral area reconstruction was conducted using the Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis method. Monophyly of the Centaurea group is confirmed if a few species are removed. Our results do not support the traditional sectional division. There is a high incongruence between the two markers and between genetic data and morphology. However, there is a clear relation between geography and the structure of the molecular data. Diversification in the Centaurea group mainly took place during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. The ancestral area infered for the Circum-Mediterranean Clade of Centaurea is the Eastern Mediterranean, whereas for the Centaurea group it is most likely NW-Africa. The large incongruencies, which hamper phylogenetic reconstruction, are probably the result of introgression, even though the presence of incomplete lineage sorting as an additional factor cannot be ruled out. Convergent evolution of morphological traits may have led to incongruence between morphology-based, traditional systematics and molecular results. Our results also cast major doubts about current species delimitation.
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- Andreas Hilpold
- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia s/n, ES-08038 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia s/n, ES-08038 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia s/n, ES-08038 Barcelona, Spain
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- Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (RJB-CSIC), Plaza de Murillo, 2, ES-28014 Madrid, Spain
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- State Institute for Nature Protection, Trg. Mažuranića 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Ecology & Systematics, Faculty of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, GR-15784 Athens, Greece
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Ecologiche e Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Piandanna 4, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
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- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia s/n, ES-08038 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Severo Ochoa s/n, ES-18071 Granada, Spain
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- Faculty of Science and Art, Selçuk University, TR-42031 Konya, Turkey
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- Faculty of Science and Art, Selçuk University, TR-42031 Konya, Turkey
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Göteborg, Box 461, SE-40530 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Pg. del Migdia s/n, ES-08038 Barcelona, Spain
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Quesada del Bosque ME, López-Flores I, Suárez-Santiago VN, Garrido-Ramos MA. Differential spreading of HinfI satellite DNA variants during radiation in Centaureinae. Ann Bot 2013; 112:1793-802. [PMID: 24169593 PMCID: PMC3838558 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Subtribe Centaureinae appears to be an excellent model group in which to analyse satellite DNA and assess the influence that the biology and/or the evolution of different lineages have had on the evolution of this class of repetitive DNA. Phylogenetic analyses of Centaureinae support two main phases of radiation, leading to two major groups of genera of different ages. Furthermore, different modes of evolution are observed in different lineages, reflected by morphology and DNA sequences. METHODS The sequences of 502 repeat units of the HinfI satellite DNA family from 38 species belonging to ten genera of Centaureinae were isolated and compared. A phylogenetic reconstruction was carried out by maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. KEY RESULTS Up to eight different HinfI subfamilies were found, based on the presence of a set of diagnostic positions given by a specific mutation shared by all the sequences of one group. Subfamilies V-VIII were mostly found in older genera (first phase of radiation in the subtribe, late Oligocene-Miocene), although some copies of these types of repeats were also found in some species of the derived genera. Subfamilies I-IV spread mostly in species of the derived clade (second phase of radiation, Pliocene to Pleistocene), although repeats of these subfamilies exist in older species. Phylogenetic trees did not group the repeats by taxonomic affinity, but sequences were grouped by subfamily provenance. Concerted evolution was observed in HinfI subfamilies spread in older genera, whereas no genetic differentiation was found between species, and several subfamilies even coexist within the same species, in recently radiated groups or in groups with a history of recurrent hybridization of lineages. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that the eight HinfI subfamilies were present in the common ancestor of Centaureinae and that each spread differentially in different genera during the two main phases of radiation following the library model of satellite DNA evolution. Additionally, differential speciation pathways gave rise to differential patterns of sequence evolution in different lineages. Thus, the evolutionary history of each group of Centaureinae is reflected in HinfI satellite DNA evolution. The data reinforce the value of satellite DNA sequences as markers of evolutionary processes.
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- Departamentos de Genética y de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Pérez-Gutiérrez MA, Romero-García AT, Salinas MJ, Blanca G, Fernández MC, Suárez-Santiago VN. Phylogeny of the tribe Fumarieae (Papaveraceae s.l.) based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences: evolutionary and biogeographic implications. Am J Bot 2012; 99:517-528. [PMID: 22334448 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Little research has been done at the molecular level on the tribe Fumarieae (Papaveraceae). Papaveraceae is a model plant group for studying evolutionary patterns despite the lack of a reference phylogeny for this tribe. We investigated the phylogenetic relationships within the tribe to complete the molecular data for this family in order to help understand its character evolution and biogeographic pattern. METHODS We used maximum-parsimony and Bayesian approaches to analyze five DNA regions for 25 species representing 10 of the 11 Fumarieae genera and five outgroups. Evolutionary pathways of four characters (habit, life span, type of fruit, and number of seeds per fruit) were inferred on the phylogeny using parsimony. The ancestral distribution areas were reconstructed using dispersal-vicariance analysis. KEY RESULTS Fumarieae is monophyletic and includes three groups that agree with the morphology-based subtribes: Discocapninae, Fumariinae, and Sarcocapninae. Within subtribes, the relationships among genera were different from those obtained with morphological data. Annual life span, nonchasmophytic habit, and a several-seeded capsule were the basal character states for the tribe. The ancestor occupied a continuous area between West Eurasia and Africa. Vicariances explain the divergence between lineages Discocapninae (South Africa) and Fumariinae-Sarcocapninae (Mediterranean), and the disjunction of Fumariinae (Mediterranean-Central Asia). CONCLUSIONS Molecular phylogeny confirms the subtribal classification of Fumarieae based on morphology. However it provides different results regarding the relationships among genera within each subtribe, which affects the inference of the evolutionary pathway followed by the four selected characters. The disjunct distribution of the tribe is explained by different vicariance scenarios.
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- Miguel A Pérez-Gutiérrez
- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, c/ Severo Ochoa, s/n 18071 Granada, Spain
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Pérez-Gutiérrez MA, Suárez-Santiago VN, López-Flores I, Romero AT, Garrido-Ramos MA. Concerted evolution of satellite DNA in Sarcocapnos: a matter of time. Plant Mol Biol 2012; 78:19-29. [PMID: 22081315 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9848-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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SarkOne is a genus-specific satellite-DNA family, isolated from the genomes of the species of the genus Sarcocapnos. This satellite DNA is composed of repeats with a consensus length of 855 bp and a mean G+C content of 52.5%. We have sequenced a total of 189 SarkOne monomeric repeats belonging to a total of seven species of the genus Sarcocapnos. The comparative analysis of these sequences both at the intraspecific and the interspecific levels have revealed divergence patterns between species are proportional to between-species divergence according to the phylogeny of the genus. Our study demonstrates that the molecular drive leading to the concerted-evolution pattern of this satellite DNA is a time-dependent process by which new mutations are spreading through genomes and populations at a gradual pace. However, time is a limiting factor in the observation of concerted evolution in some pairwise comparisons. Thus, pairwise comparisons of species sharing a recent common ancestor did not reveal nucleotide sites in transitional stages higher than stage III according to the Strachan's model. By contrast, there was a gradation in the percentage of upper transition stages (IV, V, VI) the more phylogenetically distant the species were. In addition, closely related species shared a high number of polymorphic sites, but these types of sites were not common when comparing more distant species. All these data are discussed in the light of current life-cycle models of satellite-DNA evolution.
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Suárez-Santiago VN, Ortega A, Peintner U, López-Flores I. Study on Cortinarius subgenus Telamonia section Hydrocybe in Europe, with especial emphasis on Mediterranean taxa. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 113:1070-90. [PMID: 19616624 DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2009.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2009] [Revised: 06/05/2009] [Accepted: 07/11/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In this paper we have attempted to clarify the taxonomy and nomenclature of thirteen taxa of the genus Cortinarius subgenus Telamonia (sections Hydrocybe, Fraternii) well represented in the southwestern Mediterranean area of Europe (C. atrocoeruleus, C. bombycinus, C casimiri, C. contrarius, C. decipiens, C. fraternus, C. gallurae, C. hoffmannii, C. petroselineus, C. sertipes, C. subturibulosus, C. urdaibaiensis and C. vernus). To this end we have performed a combined study of morphological and molecular data (rDNA ITS sequences). The morphological analysis was carried out on 114 collections and the molecular analysis involved 31 of the 114 collections, including 11 type collections (types for C. casimiri and C. fraternus were not available). In addition, a study of spores under field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) was conducted. The results of the combined analysis allowed us to asign the studied material to five species (C. casimiri s.l., C. decipiens s.l., C. gallurae, C. subturibulosus s.l. and C. vernus s.l.). Thus, all collections from more continental areas, which were originally identified as six different taxa (C. atrocoeruleus, C. contrarius, C. decipiens, C. fraternus, C. sertipes, C. flexipes fo. sertipes) corresponded to C. decipiens sensu lato, a widely distributed, genetically and morphologically variable species. Cortinarius casimiri is also found in such habitats, but it is confirmed as distinct taxon. Collections from Mediterranean sclerophyllous communities correspond to C. gallurae, C. vernus sensu lato and C. subturibulosus sensu lato. Due to close phylogenetic relationships we propose the new combinations C. casimiri var. hoffmannii (=C. decipiens var. hoffmannii non C. hoffmannii) and C. subturibulosus var. bombycinus (=C. bombycinus), and the new variety C. vernus var. nevadavernus (=C. vernus H. Lindstr. & Melot sensu auct.).
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Suárez-Santiago VN, López-Flores I, Romero-García AT, DE LA Herrán R, Blanca G. Eight polymorphic microsatellite markers in the Andalusian belladonna (Atropa baetica, Solanaceae). Mol Ecol Resour 2009; 9:830-2. [PMID: 21564759 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02283.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We report on the isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite markers from enriched libraries for the critically endangered Atropa baetica. These are the first microsatellite loci reported for Atropa species. The total number of alleles found was 18, the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.198 to 0.505. These markers will be useful to establish the real census of individuals and the genetic diversity both within and among the different populations of A. baetica.
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- Víctor N Suárez-Santiago
- Departamento de Botánica Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Severo Ochoa, s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Suárez-Santiago VN, Blanca G, Ruiz-Rejón M, Garrido-Ramos MA. Satellite-DNA evolutionary patterns under a complex evolutionary scenario: the case of Acrolophus subgroup (Centaurea L., Compositae) from the western Mediterranean. Gene 2007; 404:80-92. [PMID: 17905542 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2007] [Revised: 07/02/2007] [Accepted: 09/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Within the genus Centaurea (subtribe Centaureinae, tribe Cardueae, Compositae) hybridizations and reticulate-evolution phenomena have widely been recognized. This is especially true in the taxa included in the subgroup Acrolophus from the western Mediterranean area, in which recurrent hybridizations of parapatric ("microallopatric") lineages within the geographical range of a primary radiation have been suggested. The subgroup Acrolophus includes taxa from three sections (i.e. Acrolophus, Phalolepis and Willkommia), and, together with other subgroups, forms the named Jacea group (one of the three main groups into which Centaurea is divided). In this paper, we have studied the influence that the complex evolutionary scenario described for the Acrolophus subgroup from the western Mediterranean exerts on the evolutionary pattern of a satellite-DNA family, the HinfI family, which exists within the genomes of these taxa. To this end, we have analyzed the evolution of this satellite-DNA family in taxa from different taxonomic comparative levels: i) seven subspecies of the C. boissieri complex (one of which with two varieties) of the sect. Willkommia; ii) species of the sections Willkommia (10 species, 19 taxa), Acrolophus (two species), and Phalolepis (two species), all in the Acrolophus subgroup; iii) one external species to the Jacea group, C. granatensis from the group Acrocentron; iv) and species from other related genera from the Centaureinae subtribe (Phonus and Carthamus, both belonging to the Carthamus group). The influence of the suggested model for the origin and diversification of the Acrolophus subgroup is evidenced by the existence of three different HinfI satellite-DNA subfamilies coexisting in some genomes, and by the analysis that we have made by comparing site-by-site the transition stages in the process of concerted evolution between the sequences of the each subfamily. From this analysis, we can deduce that the HinfI repeated subfamilies evolved in a gradual manner, and that the different stages of concerted evolution fit quite well with the combined nuclear-chloroplast-DNA-deduced divergences and phylogeny of the subtribe Centaureinae. The HinfI satellite-DNA from the Carthamus species group (genera Carthamus and Phonus) and from the Acrocentron group (Centaurea granatensis) shows a high intraspecific conservation of the repeats, suggesting that the mechanisms producing concerted evolution have been efficient in these taxa. In addition, the comparison of individual nucleotide positions between related species shows a paucity in the spreading of variants in each subfamily with satellite-DNA divergence, an indication of a constant rate of homogenization of the repeated cluster. On the contrary, this trend is absent in the comparisons of the HinfI sequences from taxa of the subgroup Acrolophus. In this subgroup, we have found in this repetitive family similar representative average sequences for each taxon analyzed, polymorphic sites in each taxon being scant, most of them autapomorphic, representing early stages of genetic differentiation between taxa in the process of concerted evolution. The absence of concerted evolution was visualized by similar levels of intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence and by the lack of fixed species-diagnostic nucleotide sites. These facts might reflect the reticulate mode of evolution of Acrolophus.
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López-Flores I, Suárez-Santiago VN, Longet D, Saulnier D, Chollet B, Arzul I. Characterization of actin genes inBonamia ostreaeand their application to phylogeny of the Haplosporidia. Parasitology 2007; 134:1941-8. [PMID: 17672924 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182007003307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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SUMMARYBonamia ostreaeis a protozoan parasite that infects the European flat oysterOstrea edulis, causing systemic infections and resulting in massive mortalities in populations of this valuable bivalve species. In this work, we have characterizedB. ostreaeactin genes and used their sequences for a phylogenetic analysis. Design of different primer sets was necessary to amplify the central coding region of actin genes ofB. ostreae. Characterization of the sequences and their amplification in different samples demonstrated the presence of 2 intragenomic actin genes inB. ostreae, without any intron. The phylogenetic analysis placedB. ostreaein a clade withMinchinia tapetis,Minchinia teredinisandHaplosporidium costaleas its closest relatives, and demonstrated that the paralogous actin genes found inBonamiaresulted from a duplication of the original actin gene after theBonamiaorigin.
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- I López-Flores
- Laboratoire de Génétique et Pathologie. Station La Tremblade, IFREMER. Avenue Mus de Loup, 17390 La Tremblade, France.
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Garcia-Jacas N, Uysal T, Romashchenko K, Suárez-Santiago VN, Ertugrul K, Susanna A. Centaurea revisited: A molecular survey of the Jacea group. Ann Bot 2006; 98:741-53. [PMID: 16873424 PMCID: PMC2806161 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The genus Centaurea has traditionally been considered to be a complicated taxon. No attempt at phylogenetic reconstruction has been made since recent revisions in circumscription, and previous reconstructions did not include a good representation of species. A new molecular survey is thus needed. METHODS Phylogenetic analyses were conducted using sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 and the 5.8S gene. Parsimony and Bayesian approaches were used. KEY RESULTS A close correlation between geography and the phylogenetic tree based on ITS sequences was found in all the analyses, with three main groups being resolved: (1) comprising the most widely distributed circum-Mediterranean/Eurosiberian sections; (2) the western Mediterranean sections; and (3) the eastern Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian sections. The results show that the sectional classification in current use needs major revision, with many old sections being merged into larger ones. A large polytomy in the eastern Mediterranean clade suggests a rapid and recent speciation in this group. Some inconsistencies between morphology and molecular phylogeny may indicate that hybridization has played a major role in the evolution of the genus. CONCLUSIONS Phylogenetic analysis of ITS has been useful in identifying the major lineages in the group, and unraveling many inconsistencies in the sectional classification. However, most recent groups in the eastern Mediterranean clade are not resolved and reticulation in the western Mediterranean group of sections makes phylogenetic relationships within these two groups somewhat obscure.
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- N Garcia-Jacas
- Botanic Institute of Barcelona (CSIC-ICUB), Passeig del Migdia s.n., E-08038 Barcelona, Spain.
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Suárez-Santiago VN, Salinas MJ, Garcia-Jacas N, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Blanca G. Reticulate evolution in the Acrolophus subgroup (Centaurea L., Compositae) from the western Mediterranean: origin and diversification of section Willkommia Blanca. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2006; 43:156-72. [PMID: 17129737 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2006] [Revised: 08/01/2006] [Accepted: 08/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Section Willkommia (Centaurea, Compositae) is endemic to the east-central portion of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa. The section has been included with sections Acrolophus and Phalolepis in the informal subgroup Acrolophus. We have used a molecular phylogenetic approach to test the hypothesis proposed by earlier authors that the diversification of section Willkommia involved a schizoendemic process from an ancestral syngameon. Comparative analysis of the transcribed spacer sequences of the nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS and 3'ETS) regions reveals the presence of three different types of ribosomal sequences in the Acrolophus subgroup (referred to here as the Willkommia, Acrolophus-Phalolepis and Simulans ribotypes) which show a sectional-independent geographic structure. This evidence, together with the presence of additive polymorphic sites in the Willkommia sequences which agree with the geographic distribution of the taxa, suggests that members of section Willkommia and the western Mediterranean taxa of sections Acrolophus and Phalolepis fit a reticulate evolution model.
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Navarro FB, Suárez-Santiago VN, Blanca G. A new species of Haplophyllum A. Juss. (Rutaceae) from the Iberian Peninsula: evidence from morphological, karyological and molecular analyses. Ann Bot 2004; 94:571-82. [PMID: 15306560 PMCID: PMC4242230 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mch176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2003] [Revised: 03/17/2004] [Accepted: 06/29/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The discovery of a new species, Haplophyllum bastetanum F.B. Navarro, V.N. Suárez-Santiago & Blanca sp. nov., in the south-east of Spain has prompted the comparative study of species of the Iberian Peninsula, and others related, through morphological, cytogenetic, molecular, distributional and ecological characterization. METHODS The morphological study involved a quantitative analysis of the species present in the Iberian Peninsula and a comparative analysis of the morphological characteristics between H. bastetanum and other related species. Mitotic analyses were made with root meristems taken from germinating seeds. Phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA were performed using neighbour-joining (NJ) and maximum-parsimony methods. KEY RESULTS Haplophyllum bastetanum is a diploid species (2n = 18) distinguished primarily for its non-trifoliate glabrous leaves, lanceolate sepals, dark-green petals with a dorsal band of hairs, and a highly hairy ovary with round-apex locules. The other two Iberian species (H. linifolium and H. rosmarinifolium) are tetraploid (2n = 36) and have yellow petals. Both phylogenetic methods generated a well-supported clade grouping H. linifolium with H. rosmarinifolium. In the NJ tree, the H. linifolium-H. rosmarinifolium clade is a sister group to H. bastetanum, while in the parsimony analysis this occurred only when the gaps were coded as a fifth base and the characters were reweighted according to the rescaled consistency index. This latter group is supported by the sequence divergence among taxa. CONCLUSIONS The phylogenies established from DNA sequences together with morphological and cytogenetic analyses support the separation of H. bastetanum as a new species. The results suggest that the change in the number of chromosomes may be the key mechanism of speciation of the genus Haplophyllum in the Iberian Peninsula. An evolutionary scheme for them is propounded.
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- F B Navarro
- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Spain.
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