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Wäldchen J, Wittich HC, Rzanny M, Fritz A, Mäder P. Towards more effective identification keys: A study of people identifying plant species characters. PEOPLE AND NATURE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jana Wäldchen
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Germany
- Data Intensive Systems and Visualisation Technische Universität Ilmenau Ilmenau Germany
- Faculty of Biological Sciences Friedrich Schiller University Jena Germany
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O'Connor D, Pang M, Castelnuovo G, Finlayson G, Blaak E, Gibbons C, Navas-Carretero S, Almiron-Roig E, Harrold J, Raben A, Martinez JA. A rational review on the effects of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers on appetite, food reward and metabolic/adiposity outcomes in adults. Food Funct 2020; 12:442-465. [PMID: 33325948 DOI: 10.1039/d0fo02424d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Numerous strategies have been investigated to overcome the excessive weight gain that accompanies a chronic positive energy balance. Most approaches focus on a reduction of energy intake and the improvement of lifestyle habits. The use of high intensity artificial sweeteners, also known as non-caloric sweeteners (NCS), as sugar substitutes in foods and beverages, is rapidly developing. NCS are commonly defined as molecules with a sweetness profile of 30 times higher or more that of sucrose, scarcely contributing to the individual's net energy intake as they are hardly metabolized. The purpose of this review is first, to assess the impact of NCS on eating behaviour, including subjective appetite, food intake, food reward and sensory stimulation; and secondly, to assess the metabolic impact of NCS on body weight regulation, glucose homeostasis and gut health. The evidence reviewed suggests that while some sweeteners have the potential to increase subjective appetite, these effects do not translate in changes in food intake. This is supported by a large body of empirical evidence advocating that the use of NCS facilitates weight management when used alongside other weight management strategies. On the other hand, although NCS are very unlikely to impair insulin metabolism and glycaemic control, some studies suggest that NCS could have putatively undesirable effects, through various indirect mechanisms, on body weight, glycemia, adipogenesis and the gut microbiota; however there is insufficient evidence to determine the degree of such effects. Overall, the available data suggests that NCS can be used to facilitate a reduction in dietary energy content without significant negative effects on food intake behaviour or body metabolism, which would support their potential role in the prevention of obesity as a complementary strategy to other weight management approaches. More research is needed to determine the impact of NCS on metabolic health, in particular gut microbiota.
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- Dominic O'Connor
- Biopsychology Group, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Torres-Montúfar A, Borsch T, Ochoterena H. When Homoplasy Is Not Homoplasy: Dissecting Trait Evolution by Contrasting Composite and Reductive Coding. Syst Biol 2018. [PMID: 28645204 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syx053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The conceptualization and coding of characters is a difficult issue in phylogenetic systematics, no matter which inference method is used when reconstructing phylogenetic trees or if the characters are just mapped onto a specific tree. Complex characters are groups of features that can be divided into simpler hierarchical characters (reductive coding), although the implied hierarchical relational information may change depending on the type of coding (composite vs. reductive). Up to now, there is no common agreement to either code characters as complex or simple. Phylogeneticists have discussed which coding method is best but have not incorporated the heuristic process of reciprocal illumination to evaluate the coding. Composite coding allows to test whether 1) several characters were linked resulting in a structure described as a complex character or trait or 2) independently evolving characters resulted in the configuration incorrectly interpreted as a complex character. We propose that complex characters or character states should be decomposed iteratively into simpler characters when the original homology hypothesis is not corroborated by a phylogenetic analysis, and the character or character state is retrieved as homoplastic. We tested this approach using the case of fruit types within subfamily Cinchonoideae (Rubiaceae). The iterative reductive coding of characters associated with drupes allowed us to unthread fruit evolution within Cinchonoideae. Our results show that drupes and berries are not homologous. As a consequence, a more precise ontology for the Cinchonoideae drupes is required.
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- Alejandro Torres-Montúfar
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, México, D.F. C.P. 04510, México.,Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tercer Circuito s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, México, D.F. C.P. 04510, México
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- Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tercer Circuito s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, México, D.F. C.P. 04510, México
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Kirchoff BK, Leggett R, Her V, Moua C, Morrison J, Poole C. Principles of visual key construction-with a visual identification key to the Fagaceae of the southeastern United States. AOB PLANTS 2011; 2011:plr005. [PMID: 22476476 PMCID: PMC3072766 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plr005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2010] [Revised: 11/29/2010] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Advances in digital imaging have made possible the creation of completely visual keys. By a visual key we mean a key based primarily on images, and that contains a minimal amount of text. Characters in visual keys are visually, not verbally defined. In this paper we create the first primarily visual key to a group of taxa, in this case the Fagaceae of the southeastern USA. We also modify our recently published set of best practices for image use in illustrated keys to make them applicable to visual keys. METHODOLOGY Photographs of the Fagaceae were obtained from internet and herbarium databases or were taken specifically for this project. The images were printed and then sorted into hierarchical groups. These hierarchical groups of images were used to create the 'couplets' in the key. A reciprocal process of key creation and testing was used to produce the final keys. PRINCIPAL RESULTS Four keys were created, one for each of the parts-leaves, buds, fruits and bark. Species description pages consisting of multiple images were also created for each of the species in the key. Creation and testing of the key resulted in a modified list of best practices for image use visual keys. CONCLUSIONS The inclusion of images into paper and electronic keys has greatly increased their ease of use. However, virtually all of these keys are still based upon verbally defined, atomistic characters. The creation of primarily visual keys allows us to overcome the well-known limitations of linguistic-based characters and create keys that are much easier to use, especially for botanical novices.
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- Bruce K. Kirchoff
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
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Wilson LA, Sánchez-Villagra MR. Evolution and phylogenetic signal of growth trajectories: the case of chelid turtles. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2010; 316:50-60. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2010] [Revised: 08/26/2010] [Accepted: 09/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Vargas S, Breedy O, Guzman HM. The phylogeny ofPacifigorgia(Coelenterata, Octocorallia, Gorgoniidae): a case study of the use of continuous characters in the systematics of the Octocorallia. ZOOSYSTEMA 2010. [DOI: 10.5252/z2010n1a1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Mascle-Allemand C, Lavergne J, Bernadac A, Sturgis JN. Organisation and function of the Phaeospirillum molischianum photosynthetic apparatus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2008; 1777:1552-9. [PMID: 18948077 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 09/01/2008] [Accepted: 09/18/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We have investigated the organisation of the photosynthetic apparatus in Phaeospirillum molischianum, using biochemical fractionation and functional kinetic measurements. We show that only a fraction of the ATP-synthase is present in the membrane regions which contain most of the photosynthetic apparatus and that, despite its complicated stacked structure, the intracytoplasmic membrane delimits a single connected space. We find that the diffusion time required for a quinol released by the reaction centre to reach a cytochrome bc1 complex is about 260 ms. On the other hand, the reduction of the cytochrome c chain by the cytochrome bc1 complex in the presence of a reduced quinone pool occurs with a time constant of about 5 ms. The overall turnover time of the cyclic electron transfer is about 25 ms in vivo under steady-state illumination. The sluggishness of the quinone shuttle appears to be compensated, at least in part, by the size of the quinone pool. Together, our results show that P. molischianum contains a photosynthetic system, with a very different organisation from that found in Rhodobacter sphaeroides, in which quinone/quinol diffusion between the RC and the cytochrome bc1 is likely to be the rate-limiting factor for cyclic electron transfer.
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- Camille Mascle-Allemand
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, UPR 9027, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, CNRS, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, 13402, France
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Friar EA, Cruse-Sanders JM, McGlaughlin ME. Gene flow in Dubautia arborea and D. ciliolata: the roles of ecology and isolation by distance in maintaining species boundaries despite ongoing hybridization. Mol Ecol 2008; 16:4028-38. [PMID: 17894757 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03423.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The relative roles of gene flow and natural selection in maintaining species differentiation have been a subject of debate for some time. The traditional view is that gene flow constrains adaptive divergence and maintains species cohesiveness. Alternatively, ecological speciation posits that the reverse is true: that adaptive ecological differentiation constrains gene flow. In this study, we examine gene flow and population differentiation among populations of two species of the Hawaiian silversword alliance, Dubautia arborea and D. ciliolata. We compare divergence in putatively neutral microsatellite markers with divergence in leaf morphometric traits, which may be selectively important or physiologically linked to selectively important traits. Gene flow between populations was found to be significant in only one of the two species, D. arborea. Leaf morphometric differentiation between species was significant, though not among populations within species. No evidence of effective genetic introgression was observed between apparently 'pure' populations of these species. Gene flow as measured by microsatellites was not correlated with geographic distance between populations, but was correlated with the linear placement of the widest part of the leaf. Because these two species are interfertile, as demonstrated by the presence of active hybrid zone, the lack of genetic introgression and the maintenance of species boundaries may be associated with natural selection on differential habitat.
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- E A Friar
- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave. Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
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Remington DL, Robichaux RH. Influences of gene flow on adaptive speciation in theDubautia arborea-D. ciliolatacomplex. Mol Ecol 2007; 16:4014-27. [PMID: 17894756 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03447.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mechanisms of reproductive isolation during plant speciation are often unclear because distinct species often experience high levels of gene flow and hybridization. Adaptive radiations such as the Hawaiian silversword alliance (HSA) provide unique opportunities to study the interactions of selection, gene flow and isolating mechanisms during the speciation process. We examined patterns of phenotypic and genetic differentiation in Dubautia arborea and Dubautia ciliolata, two parapatric HSA taxa that show marked morphological divergence but evidence of weak molecular differentiation, in order to estimate genome-wide differentiation and gene flow patterns. We scored 166 amplified fragment length polymorphism markers in a set of 89 plants from two populations each of D. arborea and D. ciliolata and phenotypically D. arborea-like and D. ciliolata-like plants from a natural hybrid zone. Analyses of population subdivision showed low levels of differentiation between the two species (F(ST) = 0.089) and evidence that the phenotypically parental hybrid zone plants were largely of parental species rather than of hybrid origin. A Bayesian analysis of population ancestry identified a number of plants with admixed D. arborea and D. ciliolata ancestry, even in nonhybrid-zone populations. These results suggest that genome-wide low levels of differentiation between D. arborea and D. ciliolata are in part due to gene flow, and favour models of genic speciation and collective evolution in which gene flow has different effects on selected loci vs. nonselected genomic regions. We discuss ecological and climatic factors that may have shaped patterns of differentiation in this species complex.
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- D L Remington
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA.
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Friar EA, Prince LM, Roalson EH, McGlaughlin ME, Cruse-Sanders JM, Groot SJD, Porter JM. ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN THE EAST MAUI-ENDEMIC DUBAUTIA (ASTERACEAE) SPECIES. Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb00522.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Friar EA, Prince LM, Roalson EH, McGlaughlin ME, Cruse-Sanders JM, De Groot SJ, Porter JM. ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN THE EAST MAUI–ENDEMIC DUBAUTIA (ASTERACEAE) SPECIES. Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1554/05-345.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Renner SS. Multiple Miocene Melastomataceae dispersal between Madagascar, Africa and India. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2004; 359:1485-94. [PMID: 15519967 PMCID: PMC1693440 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Melastomataceae sensu stricto (excluding Memecylaceae) comprise some 3000 species in the neotropics, 1000 in Asia, 240 in Africa, and 230 in Madagascar. Previous family-wide morphological and DNA analyses have shown that the Madagascan species belong to at least three unrelated lineages, which were hypothesized to have arrived by trans-oceanic dispersal. An alternative hypothesis posits that the ancestors of Madagascan, as well as Indian, Melastomataceae arrived from Africa in the Late Cretaceous. This study tests these hypotheses in a Bayesian framework, using three combined sequence datasets analysed under a relaxed clock and simultaneously calibrated with fossils, some not previously used. The new fossil calibration comes from a re-dated possibly Middle or Upper Eocene Brazilian fossil of Melastomeae. Tectonic events were also tentatively used as constraints because of concerns that some of the family's fossils are difficult to assign to nodes in the phylogeny. Regardless of how the data were calibrated, the estimated divergence times of Madagascan and Indian lineages were too young for Cretaceous explanations to hold. This was true even of the oldest ages within the 95% credibility interval around each estimate. Madagascar's Melastomeae appear to have arrived from Africa during the Miocene. Medinilla, with some 70 species in Madagascar and two in Africa, too, arrived during the Miocene, but from Asia. Gravesia, with 100 species in Madagascar and four in east and west Africa, also appears to date to the Miocene, but its monophyly has not been tested. The study afforded an opportunity to compare divergence time estimates obtained earlier with strict clocks and single calibrations, with estimates based on relaxed clocks and different multiple calibrations and taxon sampling.
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- Susanne S Renner
- Systematic Botany, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Menzinger Strasse 67, D-80638 Munich, Germany.
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