Evolution of Lomandroideae: Multiple origins of polyploidy and biome occupancy in Australia
| Autor: | Bee F. Gunn, Terry D. Macfarlane, Neville G. Walsh, Daniel J. Murphy, Joanne L. Birch, John G. Conran, J. Chris Pires |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Time Factors Lineage (evolution) Biome Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Asparagales Polyploidy 03 medical and health sciences Asparagaceae Phylogenetics Genetics Clade Molecular Biology Ecosystem Phylogeny Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Likelihood Functions Australia Genetic Variation Bayes Theorem biology.organism_classification Biological Evolution Diploidy Arid 030104 developmental biology Organ Specificity Aridification Evolutionary biology |
| Zdroj: | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 149:106836 |
| ISSN: | 1055-7903 |
| Popis: | Asparagaceae: Lomandroideae are a species-rich and economically important subfamily in the monocot order Asparagales, with a center of diversity in Australia. Lomandroideae are ecologically diverse, occupying mesic and arid biomes in Australia and possessing an array of key traits, including sexual dimorphism, storage organs and polyploidy that are potentially adaptive for survival in seasonally arid and fire-dependent habitats. The Lomandroideae phylogeny was reconstructed using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference criteria, based on plastome data from genome-skimming to infer relationships. A fossil-calibrated chronogram provided a temporal framework for understanding trait transitions. Ancestral state reconstructions and phylogenetic comparative trait correlation analyses provided insights into the evolutionary and ecological drivers associated with Lomandroideae diversification. Lomandroideae diverged from the other Asparagaceae ca. 56.61 million years ago (95% highest posterior density values 70.31-45.34 million years) and the major lineages diversified since the Oligocene. The most recent common ancestor of the clade likely occupied the mesic biome, was hermaphroditic and geophytic. Biome occupancy transitions were correlated with polyploidy and the presence of storage roots. Polyploidy potentially serves as an "enabler" trait, generating novel phenotypes, which may confer tolerance to climatic ranges and soil conditions putatively required for expansion into and occupation of new arid biomes. Storage roots, as a key factor driving biome transitions, may have been associated with fire rather than with aridification events in the Australian flora. This study contributes significantly to our understanding of biome evolution by identifying polyploidy and storage organs as key factors associated with transitions in biome occupancy in this lineage. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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