scholarly journals Reconstructing Species Relationships within the Recently Diversified GenusOdontitesLudw. (Orobanchaceae): Evidence for Extensive Reticulate Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 179 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Gaudeul ◽  
Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev ◽  
Tae-Soo Jang ◽  
Germinal Rouhan
Author(s):  
Charles Clarke ◽  
Jan Schlauer ◽  
Jonathan Moran ◽  
Alastair Robinson

Nepenthes is a genus of 130-160 species, almost half of which were described after 2001. The recent, rapid increase in species descriptions has been driven by application of a less rigorous species concept by botanists, taxonomic inflation, and discoveries of new taxa during explorations of remote parts of Southeast Asia. Many recently published species descriptions of Nepenthes are based entirely upon qualitative morphological information and are not supported by adequate research. Accordingly, the status of many Nepenthes taxa is contested. Evolution within the genus is not well understood, because nuclear and maternally inherited plastid genomes cannot resolve relationships between many species, particularly those that evolved recently through introgression or reticulate evolution. Improvement in our understanding of the systematics and evolution of Nepenthes requires the adoption of ‘best practice’ collection and preservation methods, and the application of quantitative analytical methods for morphological, genetic, and ecological information.


aBIOTECH ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuebo Zhao ◽  
Xiangdong Fu ◽  
Changbin Yin ◽  
Fei Lu
Keyword(s):  

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Bartosz Łabiszak ◽  
Witold Wachowiak

Speciation mechanisms, including the role of interspecific gene flow and introgression in the emergence of new species, are the major focus of evolutionary studies. Inference of taxonomic relationship between closely related species may be challenged by past hybridization events, but at the same time, it may provide new knowledge about mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of species integrity despite interspecific gene flow. Here, using nucleotide sequence variation and utilizing a coalescent modeling framework, we tested the role of hybridization and introgression in the evolutionary history of closely related pine taxa from the Pinus mugo complex and P. sylvestris. We compared the patterns of polymorphism and divergence between taxa and found a great overlap of neutral variation within the P. mugo complex. Our phylogeny reconstruction indicated multiple instances of reticulation events in the past, suggesting an important role of interspecific gene flow in the species divergence. The best-fitting model revealed P. mugo and P. uncinata as sister species with basal P. uliginosa and asymmetric migration between all investigated species after their divergence. The magnitude of interspecies gene flow differed greatly, and it was consistently stronger from representatives of P. mugo complex to P. sylvestris than in the opposite direction. The results indicate the prominent role of reticulation evolution in those forest trees and provide a genetic framework to study species integrity maintained by selection and local adaptation.


PLoS Genetics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e1007986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès ◽  
Sebastián R. Najle ◽  
Claudio Scazzocchio ◽  
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo

Taxon ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastiaantje Vriesendorp ◽  
Freek T. Bakker
Keyword(s):  

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 867-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Bennert ◽  
K. Horn ◽  
M. Kauth ◽  
J. Fuchs ◽  
I. S. Bisgaard Jakobsen ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 273 (1598) ◽  
pp. 2209-2217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Herder ◽  
Arne W Nolte ◽  
Jobst Pfaender ◽  
Julia Schwarzer ◽  
Renny K Hadiaty ◽  
...  

Adaptive radiations are extremely useful to understand factors driving speciation. A challenge in speciation research is to distinguish forces creating novelties and those relevant to divergence and adaptation. Recently, hybridization has regained major interest as a potential force leading to functional novelty and to the genesis of new species. Here, we show that introgressive hybridization is a prominent phenomenon in the radiation of sailfin silversides (Teleostei: Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae) inhabiting the ancient Malili Lakes of Sulawesi, correlating conspicuously with patterns of increased diversity. We found the most diverse lacustrine species-group of the radiation to be heavily introgressed by genotypes originating from streams of the lake system, an effect that has masked the primary phylogenetic pattern of the flock. We conclude that hybridization could have acted as a key factor in the generation of the flock's spectacular diversity. To our knowledge, this is the first empirical evidence for massive reticulate evolution within a complex animal radiation.


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