1. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus Helianthemum (Cistaceae) using plastid and nuclear DNA‐sequences: Systematic and evolutionary inferences
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Aparicio, Abelardo, Martín-Hernanz, Sara, Parejo-Farnés, Clara, Arroyo, Juan, Lavergne, Sébastien, Yeşilyurt, Emine B., Zhang, Ming-Li, Rubio, Encarnación, Albaladejo, Rafael G., Aparicio, Abelardo, Martín-Hernanz, Sara, Parejo-Farnés, Clara, Arroyo, Juan, Lavergne, Sébastien, Yeşilyurt, Emine B., Zhang, Ming-Li, Rubio, Encarnación, and Albaladejo, Rafael G.
- Abstract
Helianthemum is the largest, most widely distributed and most taxonomically complex genus of the Cistaceae. To examine the intrageneric phylogenetic relationships in Helianthemum, we used sequence data from plastid DNA (ndhF, psbA‐trnH, trnL‐trnF) and the nuclear ITS region. The ingroup consisted of 95 species and subspecies (2 subgenera, 10 sections) from throughout the range of Helianthemum, while the outgroup was composed of 30 species representing all the genera in the Cistaceae (Cistus Crocanthemum, Fumana, Halimium, Hudsonia, Lechea, Tuberaria) plus Anisoptera thurifera subsp. polyandra (Dipterocarpaceae). To infer phylogenetic relationships, we analysed three different matrices (cpDNA, nrDNA, cpDNA + nrDNA concatenated) using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, and performed molecular dating to estimate the ages of origin of the main clades using a Bayesian approach. The cpDNA + nrDNA concatenated dataset provided the highest Bayesian posterior probabilities and bootstrap support values, and the results supported the monophyly of the genus Helianthemum and its sister relationship to a clade consisting of all species of Cistus, Crocanthemum, Halimium, Hudsonia and Tuberaria. This result means that we did not retrieve the sister relationship between Helianthemum and Crocanthemum (plus Hudsonia) that could be expected according to previous published studies. Despite their different statistical support, the topology of the inner branches of all the consensus trees showed that Helianthemum is characterized by the emergence of three major clades in agreement with above‐species taxonomy, although unresolved polytomies still remain towards the tips of the trees (species and subspecies). Clade I (mainly distributed in Mediterranean and alpine environments in European and western Asiatic mountain chains) fully coincided with subg. Plectolobum, whereas subg. Helianthemum was retrieved in clade II (arid and semi‐arid environments from Macaronesia, the Med, Depto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Fac. de Ciencias Biológicas, TRUE, pub
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- 2024