Journal
AQUATIC BOTANY
Volume 145, Issue -, Pages 49-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2017.11.006
Keywords
cpDNA; Area disjunction; Homoploid speciation; Fossils; Hybridization; ITS; Phylogeography; Taxonomy
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-29-02486-ofi_m, 15-29-02498-ofi_m]
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Possible routes in which aquatic plants have spreaded across their vast ranges from ancestral areas and refugia still remain poorly known. We have chosen Eurasian yellow water-lilies (Nuphar Sm. sect. Nuphar, Nymphaeaceae) as a model group for a wide-scale phylogeographical study as they represent a common component of the continental freshwater flora. To elucidate the history of diversification of the section Nuphar, we sequenced nuclear ribosomal ITS and chloroplast intergenic spacers (trriH-psbA, trnL-trnF) from 117 localities from almost all the section area. Sequence data were analysed with a statistical parsimony approach using the network algorithm. We also incorporated data on morphological variation and pollen viability. The section Nuphar originated and diversified into several evolutionary lineages in Eastern Asia. Two lineages, represented by N. pumila and N. lutea, spread from the Russian Far East westwards to Siberia and further to Europe. Nuphar pumila also migrated from the Far East to North America (where it is referred to as N. microphylla). Nuphar lutea colonized deglaciated north-eastern Europe not only from the south, but also from the Siberian refugia. Nuphar lutea and N. pumila hybridize rarely in Eastern Europe and Asia and warrant species status. We provide the first evidence, based on a phylogeographical approach, for the origin and diversification of aquatic flowering plants in Eastern Asia. Our results indicate that phylogeographic analysis on the area-wide scale is one of the most efficient ways to deduce possible routes in which aquatic plants have spread across their total range from ancestral areas and refugia.
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