Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 397-406Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100537
Keywords
Agavoideae; bimodal karyotype; next generation sequencing; paleopolyploidy
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- National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life [DEB 0732818, 0829868]
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1010905, 0841988] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0829868, 0830009] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Premise of the study: The stability of the bimodal karyotype found in Agave and closely related species has long interested botanists. The origin of the bimodal karyotype has been attributed to allopolyploidy, but this hypothesis has not been tested. Next-generation transcriptome sequence data were used to test whether a paleopolyploid event occurred on the same branch of the Agavoideae phylogenetic tree as the origin of the Yucca-Agave bimodal karyotype. Methods: Illumina RNA-seq data were generated for phylogenetically strategic species in Agavoideae. Paleopolyploidy was inferred in analyses of frequency plots for synonymous substitutions per synonymous site (K-s) between Hosta, Agave, and Chlorophytum paralogous and orthologous gene pairs. Phylogenies of gene families including paralogous genes for these species and outgroup species were estimated to place inferred paleopolyploid events on a species tree. Key results: K-s frequency plots suggested paleopolyploid events in the history of the genera Agave, Hosta, and Chlorophytum. Phylogenetic analyses of gene families estimated from transcriptome data revealed two polyploid events: one predating the last common ancestor of Agave and Hosta and one within the lineage leading to Chlorophytum. Conclusions: We found that polyploidy and the origin of the Yucca-Agave bimodal karyotype co-occur on the same lineage consistent with the hypothesis that the bimodal karyotype is a consequence of allopolyploidy. We discuss this and alternative mechanisms for the formation of the Yucca-Agave bimodal karyotype. More generally, we illustrate how the use of next-generation sequencing technology is a cost-efficient means for assessing genome evolution in nonmodel species.
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