Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 66, Issue 12, Pages 3701-3709Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01730.x
Keywords
Comparative methods; Dollo's law; macroevolution; self-incompatibility; Solanaceae
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- National Science Foundation [DEB-0919089, DEB-1120279]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1120279] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0919089] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Classic questions about trait evolutionincluding the directionality of character change and its interactions with lineage diversificationintersect in the study of plant breeding systems. Transitions from self-incompatibility to self-compatibility are frequent, and they may proceed within a species (anagenetic mode of breeding system change) or in conjunction with speciation events (cladogenetic mode of change). We apply a recently developed phylogenetic model to the nightshade family Solanaceae, quantifying the relative contributions of these two modes of evolution along with the tempo of breeding system change, speciation, and extinction. We find that self-incompatibility, a genetic mechanism that prevents self-fertilization, is lost largely by the cladogenetic mode. Self-compatible species are thus more likely to arise from the isolation of a newly self-compatible population than from species-wide fixation of self-compatible mutants. Shared polymorphism at the locus that governs self-incompatibility shows it to be ancestral and not regained within this family. We demonstrate that failing to account for cladogenetic character change misleads phylogenetic tests of evolutionary irreversibility, both for breeding system in Solanaceae and on simulated trees.
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