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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 63, 期 3, 页码 650-655出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.005
关键词
Carex; Cyperaceae; Diversification rates; Holocentric chromosomes; Latitudinal climate gradient; Perigynium; Utricle
资金
- NSF-DEB [0743157]
- Marie Curie fellowship (Project BIRDISLAND) [273066]
- MEC [FU2009-0946]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0743157] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The sedge family (Cyperaceae: Poales; ca. 5600 spp.) is a hyperdiverse cosmopolitan group with centres of species diversity in Africa, Australia, eastern Asia, North America, and the Neotropics. Carex, with ca. 40% of the species in the family, is one of the most species-rich angiosperm genera and the most diverse in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, making it atypical among plants in that it inverts the latitudinal gradient of species richness. moreover, Carex exhibits high rates of chromosome rearrangement via fission, fusion, and translocation, which distinguishes it from the rest of the Cyperaceae. Here, we use a phylogenetic framework to examine how the onset of contemporary temperate climates and the processes of chromosome evolution have influenced the diversification dynamics of Carex. We provide estimates of diversification rates and map chromosome transitions across the evolutionary history of the main four clades of Carex. We demonstrate that Carex underwent a shift in diversification rates sometime between the Late Eocene and the Oligocene, during a global cooling period, which fits with a transition in diploid chromosome number. We suggest that adaptive radiation to novel temperate climates, aided by a shift in the mode of chromosome evolution, may explain the large-scale radiation of Carex and its latitudinal pattern of species richness. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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