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BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
Volume 200, Issue 3, Pages 344-359Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/boac014
Keywords
agarwood; Aquilarieae; chloroplast genomes; divergence time estimation; topological distance clustering
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [33000-31611215]
- Guangzhou Science and Technology Project [201903010076, 20192021]
- Shenzhen Dapeng Peninsula National Geopark Science and Technology Innovation Project (2020-2021) [HT-99982020-0258]
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This study reconstructed the phylogenetic tree of the Aquilarieae tribe using complete plastid genome sequences of 12 Aquilaria species and 7 Gyrinops species. The results revealed that Aquilaria nested within Gyrinops, indicating a paraphyletic relationship between the two genera. The study highlights the importance of plastome sequences in resolving taxonomic relationships.
The agarwood-producing genera, Aquilaria and Gyrinops, have been treated as sister genera in Thymelaeaceae (Aquilarieae, Malvales). However, there are differing opinions about their taxonomic positions. Using new evidence from complete plastid genome (plastome) sequences of 12 Aquilaria spp. and seven Gyrinops spp., corresponding to more than half the total number of species recognized in each genus, we reconstructed a phylogenetic tree of Aquilarieae. Members of both genera shared similar sequence variations at the plastome level. The phylogenetic relationships of the two genera were completely resolved using the complete plastome sequences. Gyrinops was paraphyletic to Aquilaria, i.e. Aquilaria nested in Gyrinops. Overlapping clustering patterns were observed from topology-clustering analysis using the complete plastome and the protein-coding gene sequences, which further reinforced the paraphyletic link. The maximum-likelihood-based RelTime analysis suggested that Aquilarieae and Daphneae diverged c. 44 Mya during the Eocene, followed by a rapid divergence event in Aquilarieae, with the split between G. vidalii and G. walla c. 1.24 Mya during the Pleistocene. Our new phylogenetic estimation demonstrates the relationship between the two genera, which will aid in future taxonomic revisions involving members of Aquilarieae.
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