Phylogenetic relationships among A-genome species of the genus Oryza revealed by intron sequences of four nuclear genes

A multidisciplinary approach is an extremely powerful tool for determining genomic diversity and establishing genomic relationships within and among species. This study used cytogenetics and a molecular method (ITS of the rDNA) to uncover genomic diversity in Glycine canescens and Glycine tomentella and to establish their phylogenetic relationships with the other diploid species of the genus Glycine. Cytogenetics revealed that G. canescens accessions (PIs 583944, 583946, 583953, and 591575) from Western Australia were genomically similar. However, they were differentiated by a paracentric inversion from the standard G. canescens (PI 440932) collected from South Australia. By contrast, G. tomentella (2n = 40) accessions from Western Australia were highly diverse genomically. Cytogenetics and ITS investigations separated the diploid G. tomentella accessions in Australia into four distinct groups. The genome symbols DD (isozyme group D3; PI 505222), D1D1 (isozyme group D5; PI 505301), D2D2 (isozyme group D5; PI 505203), and D3D3 (isozyme group D4; PI 441000) are being assigned to these four groups. The D1 and D2 genome group accessions are distributed in Western Australia. The D3-genome group of G. tomentella accessions are morphologically similar neither to A-genome species nor to the D-, D1-, or D2-genome groups. However, the D3-genome group was phylogenetically grouped with the A-genome species, while the D-, D1-, and D2-genome groups showed a close relationship with E-, H-, and I-genome species. This study demonstrates that diploid G. tomentella of Western Australia is a complex species, and from an evolutionary viewpoint, it is actively radiating out into several genomic variants.Key words: Glycine spp., soybean, genome, cytogenetics, ITS region.

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Plastid phylogenomics resolves ambiguous relationships within the orchid family and provides a solid timeframe for biogeography and macroevolution

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-83664-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Maria Alejandra Serna-Sánchez ◽

Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar ◽

Diego Bogarín ◽

María Fernanda Torres-Jimenez ◽

Astrid Catalina Alvarez-Yela ◽

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Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Relationships ◽

Divergence Times ◽

Molecular Clocks ◽

Phylogenetic Placement ◽

Plastid Genomes ◽

Phylogenetic Reconstructions ◽

A Genome ◽

Tree Models ◽

Phylogenomic Analyses ◽

First Time

AbstractRecent phylogenomic analyses based on the maternally inherited plastid organelle have enlightened evolutionary relationships between the subfamilies of Orchidaceae and most of the tribes. However, uncertainty remains within several subtribes and genera for which phylogenetic relationships have not ever been tested in a phylogenomic context. To address these knowledge-gaps, we here provide the most extensively sampled analysis of the orchid family to date, based on 78 plastid coding genes representing 264 species, 117 genera, 18 tribes and 28 subtribes. Divergence times are also provided as inferred from strict and relaxed molecular clocks and birth–death tree models. Our taxon sampling includes 51 newly sequenced plastid genomes produced by a genome skimming approach. We focus our sampling efforts on previously unplaced clades within tribes Cymbidieae and Epidendreae. Our results confirmed phylogenetic relationships in Orchidaceae as recovered in previous studies, most of which were recovered with maximum support (209 of the 262 tree branches). We provide for the first time a clear phylogenetic placement for Codonorchideae within subfamily Orchidoideae, and Podochilieae and Collabieae within subfamily Epidendroideae. We also identify relationships that have been persistently problematic across multiple studies, regardless of the different details of sampling and genomic datasets used for phylogenetic reconstructions. Our study provides an expanded, robust temporal phylogenomic framework of the Orchidaceae that paves the way for biogeographical and macroevolutionary studies.

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Phylogenetic relationships of discoglossid frogs (Amphibia:Anura:Discoglossidae) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear genes

Gene ◽

10.1016/j.gene.2004.10.001 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 343 (2) ◽

pp. 357-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Diego San Mauro ◽

Mario García-París ◽

Rafael Zardoya

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Relationships ◽

Nuclear Genes ◽

Mitochondrial Genomes ◽

Complete Mitochondrial Genomes

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Meiotic and Population Dynamics in the Indigenous Representatives of the A-genome Complex of the Genus Oryza Linn.

International Journal of Botany ◽

10.3923/ijb.2008.33.40 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 33-40

Author(s):

Francisca O. Aladeja ◽

J.O. Faluyi ◽

Chinyere C. Nwokeoc

Keyword(s):

Population Dynamics ◽

A Genome ◽

Genus Oryza

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Nuclear- and chloroplast-microsatellite variation in A-genome species of rice

Genome ◽

10.1139/g01-044 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 658-666 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

T Ishii ◽

Y Xu ◽

S R McCouch

Keyword(s):

Oryza Sativa ◽

Length Polymorphism ◽

Allelic Diversity ◽

Sequence Length ◽

Chloroplast Microsatellites ◽

Microsatellite Variation ◽

Chloroplast Microsatellite ◽

Genome Species ◽

A Genome ◽

Simple Sequence

Simple sequence length polymorphism analysis was carried out to reveal microsatellite variation and to clarify the phylogenetic relationships among A-genome species of rice. Total DNA from 29 cultivars (23 Oryza sativa and 6 O. glaberrima) and 30 accessions of wild A-genome species (12 O. rufipogon, 5 O. glumaepatula, 2 O. longistaminata, 6 O. meridionalis, and 5 O. barthii) was used as a template for PCR to detect 24 nuclear and 10 chloroplast microsatellite loci. Microsatellite allelic diversity was examined based on amplified banding patterns. Microsatellites amplified clearly in all 59 accessions, with an average of 18.4 alleles per locus. The polymorphism information content (PIC) value ranged from 0.85 to 0.94, with an average of 0.89. At the species level, high average PIC values were observed in O. sativa (0.79) and O. rufipogon (0.80). For chloroplast microsatellites, the average number of alleles per locus and the average PIC value were 2.9 and 0.38, respectively. While the magnitude of diversity was much greater for nuclear microsatellites than for chloroplast microsatellites, they showed parallel patterns of differentiation for each taxonomic group. Using the ratio of common alleles (estimated as size of amplified fragments) as a similarity index, the average percentages of common microsatellite alleles were calculated between taxa. For both nuclear and chloroplast microsatellites, O. sativa showed the highest similarity values to O. rufipogon, and O. glaberrima was most similar to O. barthii. These data support previous evidence that these cultivars originated from the corresponding wild ancestral species.Key words: simple sequence length polymorphism, SSLP, microsatellite marker, rice, Oryza sativa, allelic diversity, phylogenetics.

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