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Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Barker, N. P.; Vanderpoorten, Alain; Morton, C. M. et al.
2004In Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33 (3), p. 845-860
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Keywords :
Leucadendron; dispersal-Vicariance analysis; ITS; phylogeny; Proteaceae; life history traits; serotiny
Abstract :
[en] Leucadendron is a moderately large genus of Proteaccae almost entirely restricted to the Cape Floristic Region of southern Africa. The genus is unusual in being dioecious and sexually dimorphic. ITS sequence data were obtained from 62 of the 96 currently recognized taxa (85 species and 11 subspecies). Phylogenetic analyses were conducted under Maximum Likelihood and parsimony and resolved nine groups of species with varying degrees of bootstrap support, but relationships between these groups are largely unsupported. The phylogeny conflicts with the current taxonomic arrangement, which is based mainly on fruit morphology. The two sections of the genus, Alatosperma and Leucadendron, and several subsections within these sections, are resolved as non-monophyletic. This means that taxonomically important characters (such as fruit shape) have evolved multiple times, as the species with nutlike fruit (resolved into two of the nine groups) appear to have evolved independently from ancestors with winged fruit. Based on the topology obtained, the life history traits of anemophily, myrmechochory, and re-sprouting have also originated multiple times. Dispersal-Vicariance (DIVA) analysis suggests that the genus had an ancestral area in the Karoo Mountain and Southeastern phytogeographic centres of endemism in the southwestern Cape. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Disciplines :
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
Author, co-author :
Barker, N. P.
Vanderpoorten, Alain ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Taxonomie végétale et biologie de la conservation
Morton, C. M.
Rourke, J. P.
Language :
English
Title :
Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Publication date :
December 2004
Journal title :
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
ISSN :
1055-7903
eISSN :
1095-9513
Publisher :
Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, United States - California
Volume :
33
Issue :
3
Pages :
845-860
Peer reviewed :
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