Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae)

Barker, Nigel P; Vanderpoorten, Alain; Morton, Cynthia M; Rourke, John P

Title: Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Creator: Barker, Nigel P
Creator: Vanderpoorten, Alain
Creator: Morton, Cynthia M
Creator: Rourke, John P
Date Issued: 2004
Date: 2004
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6496
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004491
Description: Leucadendron is a moderately large genus of Proteaceae almost entirely restricted to the Cape Floristic Region of southern Africa. The genus is unusual in being dioecious and sexually dimorphic. ITS sequence data were obtained from 62 of the 96 currently recognized taxa (85 species and 11 subspecies). Phylogenetic analyses were conducted under Maximum Likelihood and parsimony and resolved nine groups of species with varying degrees of bootstrap support, but relationships between these groups are largely unsupported. The phylogeny conflicts with the current taxonomic arrangement, which is based mainly on fruit morphology. The two sections of the genus, Alatosperma and Leucadendron, and several subsections within these sections, are resolved as non-monophyletic. This means that taxonomically important characters (such as fruit shape) have evolved multiple times, as the species with nutlike fruit (resolved into two of the nine groups) appear to have evolved independently from ancestors with winged fruit. Based on the topology obtained, the life history traits of anemophily, myrmechochory, and re-sprouting have also originated multiple times. Dispersal–Vicariance (DIVA) analysis suggests that the genus had an ancestral area in the Karoo Mountain and Southeastern phytogeographic centres of endemism in the southwestern Cape.
Description: Elsevier
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Barker, N.P. and Vanderpoorten, A. and Morton, C.M. and Rourke, J.P. (2004) Phylogeny, biogeography, and the evolution of life-history traits in Leucadendron (Proteaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33 (3). pp. 845-860.

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