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BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
Volume 171, Issue 1, Pages 171-190Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01325.x
Keywords
ycf1; gynodioecy; BEAST
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- UW-Madison Botany Department Davis Fund research grants, a Wisconsin State Herbarium Fund grant, a UW-Madison LACIS grant
- NSF DDIG [DEB-0910336]
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Lepechinia (Lamiaceae) is a diverse and widespread genus that is important in indigenous New World culture. We present a phylogenetic analysis of 72 accessions representing 31 species of Lepechinia using data from three plastid (trnL-F, ycf1, ycf1-rps15 spacer) and four nuclear [internal transcribed spacer (ITS), external transcribed spacer (ETS), granule-bound starch synthase?I (GBSS)I, pentatricopeptide repeat region (PPR)-AT3G09060] DNA regions. Data were analysed using parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Divergence time estimation using BEAST shows Lepechinia had a mid/late Miocene origin, perhaps as a response to global cooling patterns. Cladogenesis in most South American Lepechinia is shown to have occurred within the past 5?Myr, presumably as a response to climatic and orogenic events. Dioecy has arisen multiple times in Lepechinia, once in North America and at least twice in South America, and not necessarily involving gynodioecy as an intermediary step. Dioecy and gynodioecy are demonstrated to be associated with several floral characters, including flower size, number and colour. (c) 2012 The Linnean Society of London
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