Using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: Progress and prospects II. Next-gen approaches

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Zimmer ◽  
Jun Wen
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Plant Phylogenetics ◽  
Gene Data

Generating single-copy nuclear gene data for a recent adaptive radiation

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justen B. Whittall ◽  
Andrew Medina-Marino ◽  
Elizabeth A. Zimmer ◽  
Scott A. Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Radiation ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Single Copy ◽  
Single Copy Nuclear Gene ◽  
Gene Data

Mitosis and Interphase of the Highly Polyploid Palm Voanioalagerardii (2n = 606 ± 3)

2015 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Röser
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fluorochrome Banding ◽  
Dna Amount ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
High Polyploid ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Gene Data ◽  
First Time

The endemic, highly polyploid, monotypic Madagascan palm genus Voanioala (2n ≈ 606) was studied with regard to mitotic stages and interphase. Features of the cell cycle, morphology and sizes of metaphase chromosomes, fluorochrome banding patterns, and silver staining of NORs of such an extremely high polyploid organism are reported for the first time. On a whole, karyokinesis appears to be stable and efficient. A comparison with closely related palm taxa reveals that V. gerardii is 38-ploid, and comparison with the closely related genera Butia, Cocos (coconut) and Jubaea shows that Voanioala has lost ∼35% of its DNA amount subsequent to polyploidization and has suppressed between 74 and 88% of the original nucleolar organizers. About 10 active NORs are present in the nuclei. An auto- or allopolyploid origin of Voanioala is discussed with respect to currently available nuclear gene data. The biogeographic relations to Jubaeopsis, a closely related, monotypic, apparently likewise relict palm genus from eastern mainland South Africa are discussed. From a cytogenetic point of view, a common polyploid ancestor of both genera is most likely, but the available molecular phylogenetic data are not univocal.

Contrasting and complex evolutionary histories within the terapontid grunter genus Hephaestus revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial genes

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 1813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Pusey ◽  
Andrew Bentley ◽  
Damien Burrows ◽  
Colton Perna ◽  
Aaron Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Cryptic Speciation ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Mitochondrial Data ◽  
Wet Tropics ◽  
Gene Data

Contrasting evolutionary histories may be revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear information. Divergent New Guinean and eastern and western Australian lineages of Hephaestus fuliginosus (sooty grunter) were detected using mitochondrial data, with the extent of divergence consistent with cryptic speciation events. However, this phylogeographic pattern was not supported by nuclear gene data, and evidence for cryptic speciation appears driven almost entirely by introgression between H. fuliginosus and congeners on the periphery of its distribution (e.g. with H. tulliensis, H. jenkinsi or H. roemeri). Hephaestus fuliginosus is a single species with a complex evolutionary history. Introgression on the eastern coast is consistent with transfer of the mitochondrial genome of the resident species (H. tulliensis) to the invading species (H. fuliginosus) and may have provided the metabolic capacity for H. fuliginosus to spread into the cooler rainforest environment of the Wet Tropics region. Mitochondrial and nuclear analyses both identified the genus Hephaestus as polyphyletic with H. carbo and H. habbemai placed in a clade with Leiopotherapon unicolor and Amniataba percoides. The present study demonstrated the need to consider a variety of genetic information when assessing species identity in a widespread species and the need for a systematic revision of the genus and family as a whole.

Nuclear and chloroplast DNA phylogeny reveals complex evolutionary history of Elymus pendulinus

Genome ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Yan ◽  
Qianni Hu ◽  
Genlou Sun
Keyword(s):  
Chloroplast Dna ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Nuclear Genome ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Reticulate Evolution ◽  
Maternal Genome ◽  
Unknown Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gene Data ◽  
Genome Donors

Evidence accumulated over the last decade has shown that allopolyploid genomes may undergo complex reticulate evolution. In this study, 13 accessions of tetraploid Elymus pendulinus were analyzed using two low-copy nuclear genes (RPB2 and PepC) and two regions of chloroplast genome (Rps16 and trnD-trnT). Previous studies suggested that Pseudoroegneria (St) and an unknown diploid (Y) were genome donors to E. pendulinus, and that Pseudoroegneria was the maternal donor. Our results revealed an extreme reticulate pattern, with at least four distinct gene lineages coexisting within this species that might be acquired through a possible combination of allotetraploidization and introgression from both within and outside the tribe Hordeeae. Chloroplast DNA data identified two potential maternal genome donors (Pseudoroegneria and an unknown species outside Hordeeae) to E. pendulinus. Nuclear gene data indicated that both Pseudoroegneria and an unknown Y diploid have contributed to the nuclear genome of E. pendulinus, in agreement with cytogenetic data. However, unexpected contributions from Hordeum and unknown aliens from within or outside Hordeeae to E. pendulinus without genome duplication were observed. Elymus pendulinus provides a remarkable instance of the previously unsuspected chimerical nature of some plant genomes and the resulting phylogenetic complexity produced by multiple historical reticulation events.

scholarly journals Speciation underground in desert aquifers or just another case of hybridisation by blind beetles?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Cooper ◽  
Barbara Langille ◽  
Josephine Hyde ◽  
William Humphreys ◽  
Andrew Austin
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Opsin Gene ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Long Wavelength ◽  
Introgressive Hybridisation ◽  
Cave Environment ◽  
The Common ◽  
Parapatric Speciation ◽  
Gene Data ◽  
Rule Out

Phylogeographic studies have provided evidence for speciation underground within the confines of a cave environment, questioning the assumption that cave animals evolved from surface ancestors (Juan et al. 2010). However, for many of these studies, it is difficult to rule out the possibility that phylogeographic patterns may have resulted from multiple colonisation events from the same ancestral surface species, introgressive hybridisation among related species, and/or the extinction of surface ancestral lineages. Such is the case for the subterranean diving beetle species (Dytiscidae) of the groundwater calcrete archipelago of central Western Australia, where more than 100 species have been described that appear to have evolved by a combination of ecological/allopatric speciation and in some cases possibly sympatric speciation. We have further explored these speciation theories by phylogeographic analyses of nuclear gene data (WG, TOPO, ARK, Cn) from 86 species in the genera Limbodessus and Paroster, including analyses of genes involved in photoreception for select Paroster taxa. Analyses provide further support for the presence of sympatric sister species, thus, rejecting the hypothesis that previous phylogeographic patterns, based on mitochondrial DNA, resulted from introgressive hybridisation. Our analyses also uncovered deleterious frameshift and stop mutations in a long wavelength opsin gene that mapped to the common ancestor of a sympatric sister triplet of stygobiont species, providing strong evidence that this ancestor was already adapted to living underground and that the species triplet evolved within the confines of a single groundwater calcrete. Our analyses show that while the majority (~75%) of these stygobiont beetle species evolved from surface ancestors, a significant number diversified underground through a process of either sympatric or parapatric speciation.

Unravelling allopolyploid origins in the Alyssum montanum–A. repens species complex (Brassicaceae): low-copy nuclear gene data complement plastid DNA sequences and AFLPs

2017 ◽  
Vol 184 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Melichárková ◽  
Stanislav Španiel ◽  
Daniela Brišková ◽  
Karol Marhold ◽  
Judita Zozomová-Lihová
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Plastid Dna ◽  
Gene Data

A new living species of degu, genus Octodon (Hystricomorpha: Octodontidae)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo D’Elía ◽  
Pablo Teta ◽  
Diego H Verzi ◽  
Richard Cadenillas ◽  
James L Patton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Gene Tree ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Gene Trees ◽  
Cranial Measurements ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Gene Data

Abstract We combine morphological (qualitative and quantitative data) and genetic (one mitochondrial and one nuclear gene) data from a large set of specimens of Octodon from the four currently recognized living species of the genus. The integration of the results (qualitative assessment, multivariate analysis of cranial measurements, and gene trees) allows us to state that 1) the current taxonomic scheme does not reflect the species diversity of Octodon; 2) in particular, as currently understood O. bridgesii likely is a complex of three species; 3) one of these, encompassing the southern populations of the genus, in the Araucanía Region (Chile) and Neuquén Province (Argentina), is named and described here as a new species; and 4) the mitochondrial gene tree departs from the nuclear gene tree with respect to O. pacificus and the new species here described.

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