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Li QQ, Zhang ZP, Aogan, Wen J. Comparative chloroplast genomes of Argentina species: genome evolution and phylogenomic implications. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1349358. [PMID: 38766467 PMCID: PMC11099909 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1349358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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The genus Argentina Hill belongs to the tribe Potentilleae Sweet and contains approximately 75 species predominantly distributed in the Sino-Himalayan region and the Malesian archipelago. So far we have less knowledge on the phylogenetic relationships within Argentina owing to limited sampling of Argentina taxa or gene fragments in previous studies. Moreover, to date there is no phylogenetic study on Argentina from the perspective of comparative chloroplast (cp) genomics. Here we performed comparative genomic analyses on the cp genomes of 39 accessions representing 18 taxa of Argentina. The Argentina cp genomes presented the typical quadripartite structure, with the sizes ranging from 155 096 bp to 157 166 bp. The 39 Argentina cp genomes contained a set of 112 unique genes, comprising four ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, 30 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, as well as 78 protein-coding genes (PCGs). The cp genome organization, gene content and order in Argentina were highly conserved, but some visible divergences were present in IR/SC boundary regions. Ten regions (trnH-GUG-psbA, trnG-GCC-trnfM-CAU, trnD-GUC-trnY-GUA, rpl32-trnL-UAG, atpH-atpI, rps16-trnQ-UUG, trnS-GCU-trnG-UCC, ndhF-rpl32, trnR-UCU-atpA, and accD-psaI) were identified as excellent candidate DNA markers for future studies on species identification, population genetics and phylogeny of Argentina. Our results indicated that Argentina is monophyletic. In the current sampling, the A. smithiana - A. anserina clade was sister to the remainder of Argentina. Our results corroborated the previous taxonomic treatments to transfer A. phanerophlebia and A. micropetala from the genus Sibbaldia L. to Argentina. Our results showed close relationships among A. stenophylla, A. microphylla, A. taliensis, and A. tatsienluensis, congruent with previous studies based on the morphology of these species. Twenty-six genes (rps3, rps15, rps16, rps19, rpl16, rpl20, rpl22, rpoA, rpoB, rpoC1, rpoC2, atpA, atpF, psbB, psbF, ndhA, ndhB, ndhC, ndhD, ndhF, rbcL, accD, ccsA, matK, ycf1, ycf2) were with sites under positive selection, and adaptive evolution of these genes might have played crucial roles in Argentina species adaptation to the harsh mountain environment. This study will facilitate future work on taxonomy, phylogenetics, and adaptive evolution of Argentina.
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- Qin-Qin Li
- College of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Mongolian Plateau for College and University of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot, China
- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
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Kuo LY, Su HJ, Koubínová D, Xie PJ, Whitehouse C, Ebihara A, Grant JR. Organellar phylogenomics of Ophioglossaceae fern genera. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 14:1294716. [PMID: 38288414 PMCID: PMC10823028 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1294716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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Previous phylogenies showed conflicting relationships among the subfamilies and genera within the fern family Ophioglossaceae. However, their classification remains unsettled where contrasting classifications recognize four to 15 genera. Since these treatments are mostly based on phylogenetic evidence using limited, plastid-only loci, a phylogenomic understanding is actually necessary to provide conclusive insight into the systematics of the genera. In this study, we have therefore compiled datasets with the broadest sampling of Ophioglossaceae genera to date, including all fifteen currently recognized genera, especially for the first time the South African endemic genus Rhizoglossum. Notably, our comprehensive phylogenomic matrix is based on both plastome and mitogenome genes. Inferred from the coding sequences of 83 plastid and 37 mitochondrial genes, a strongly supported topology for these subfamilies is presented, and is established by analyses using different partitioning approaches and substitution models. At the generic level, most relationships are well resolved except for few within the subfamily Ophioglossoideae. With this new phylogenomic scheme, key morphological and genomic changes were further identified along this backbone. In addition, we confirmed numerous horizontally transferred (HGT) genes in the genera Botrypus, Helminthostachys, Mankyua, Sahashia, and Sceptridium. These HGT genes are most likely located in mitogenomes and are predominately donated from angiosperm Santalales or non-Ophioglossaceae ferns. By our in-depth searches of the organellar genomes, we also provided phylogenetic overviews for the plastid and mitochondrial MORFFO genes found in these Ophioglossaceae ferns.
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- Li-Yaung Kuo
- Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Earth and Life Sciences, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
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- University of Neuchâtel, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- University of Neuchâtel, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Zhao J, Zhou X, Fang S, Zhu Z, Li Y, Yu H, He Z. Transcriptome-Based Study on the Phylogeny and Hybridization of Marattialean Ferns (Marattiaceae). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:2237. [PMID: 37375862 DOI: 10.3390/plants12122237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Marattiaceae is a phylogenetically isolated family of tropical eusporangiate ferns including six genera with more than one-hundred species. In Marattiaceae, monophyly of genera has been well-supported phylogenetically. However, the phylogenetic relationships among them were elusive and controversial. Here, a dataset of 26 transcriptomes (including 11 newly generated) were used to assess single-copy nuclear genes and to obtain the organelle gene sequences. Through phylotranscriptomic analysis, the phylogeny and hybridization events of Marattiaceae were explored and a robust phylogenomic framework for the evolution of Marattiaceae was provided. Using both concatenation- and coalescent-based phylogenies, the gene-tree discordance, incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) simulations, and network inference were examined. Except the low support with mitochondrial genes of Marattiaceae, nuclear genes and chloroplast genes strongly supported a sister relationship between Marattiaceae and leptosporangiate ferns. At the genus level, all phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear genes datasets recovered five genera in Marattiaceae as monophyletic with strong support. Danaea and Ptisana were the first two diverged clades in turn. Christensenia was a sister clade to the clade Marattia + Angiopteris s.l. In Angiopteris s.l., three clades (Angiopteris s.s., the Archangiopteris group, and An. sparsisora) were well identified with maximum support. The Archangiopteris group was derived from Angiopteris s.s. at ca. 18 Ma. The putative hybrid species An. sparsisora between Angiopteris s.s. and the Archangiopteris group was verified by the species network analyses and the maternal plastid genes. This study will improve our understanding for using the phylotranscriptomic method to explore phylogeny and investigate hybridization events for difficult taxa in ferns.
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- Jing Zhao
- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, East Outer Ring Road, Chenggong District, Kunming 650500, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, East Outer Ring Road, Chenggong District, Kunming 650500, China
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Jiang RH, Liang SQ, Wu F, Tang LM, Qin B, Chen YY, Huang YH, Li KX, Zhang XC. Phylogenomic analysis, cryptic species discovery, and DNA barcoding of the genus Cibotium in China based on plastome data. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1183653. [PMID: 37346120 PMCID: PMC10279961 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1183653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Germplasm resources are the source of herbal medicine production. The cultivation of superior germplasm resources helps to resolve the conflict between long-term population persistence and growing market demand by consistently producing materials with high quality. The fern species Cibotium barometz is the original plant of cibotii rhizoma ("Gouji"), a traditional Chinese medicine used in the therapy of pain, weakness, and numbness in the lower extremities. Long-history medicinal use has caused serious wild population decline in China. Without sufficient understanding of the species and lineage diversity of Cibotium, it is difficult to propose a targeted conservation scheme at present, let alone select high-quality germplasm resources. In order to fill such a knowledge gap, this study sampled C. barometz and relative species throughout their distribution in China, performed genome skimming to obtain plastome data, and conducted phylogenomic analyses. We constructed a well-supported plastome phylogeny of Chinese Cibotium, which showed that three species with significant genetic differences are distributed in China, namely C. barometz, C. cumingii, and C. sino-burmaense sp. nov., a cryptic species endemic to NW Yunnan and adjacent regions of NE Myanmar. Moreover, our results revealed two differentiated lineages of C. barometz distributed on the east and west sides of a classic phylogeographic boundary that was probably shaped by monsoons and landforms. We also evaluated the resolution of nine traditional barcode loci and designed five new DNA barcodes based on the plastome sequence that can distinguish all these species and lineages of Chinese Cibotium accurately. These novel findings on a genetic basis will guide conservation planners and medicinal plant breeders to build systematic conservation plans and exploit the germplasm resources of Cibotium in China.
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- Ri-Hong Jiang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Special Non-wood Forest Cultivation and Utilization, Guangxi Engineering and Technology Research Center for Woody Spices, Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, China
- Beijing Botanical Garden, Beijing, China
- Beijing Floriculture Engineering Technology Research Centre, Beijing, China
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- Guangxi Forestry Industry Group Stock Corporation, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Special Non-wood Forest Cultivation and Utilization, Guangxi Engineering and Technology Research Center for Woody Spices, Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Special Non-wood Forest Cultivation and Utilization, Guangxi Engineering and Technology Research Center for Woody Spices, Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Special Non-wood Forest Cultivation and Utilization, Guangxi Engineering and Technology Research Center for Woody Spices, Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Special Non-wood Forest Cultivation and Utilization, Guangxi Engineering and Technology Research Center for Woody Spices, Guangxi Forestry Research Institute, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, China
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Li ZZ, Lehtonen S, Chen JM. The dynamic history of plastome structure across aquatic subclass Alismatidae. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:125. [PMID: 36869282 PMCID: PMC9985265 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04125-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The rapidly increasing availability of complete plastomes has revealed more structural complexity in this genome under different taxonomic levels than expected, and this complexity provides important evidence for understanding the evolutionary history of angiosperms. To explore the dynamic history of plastome structure across the subclass Alismatidae, we sampled and compared 38 complete plastomes, including 17 newly assembled, representing all 12 recognized families of Alismatidae. RESULT We found that plastomes size, structure, repeat elements, and gene content were highly variable across the studied species. Phylogenomic relationships among families were reconstructed and six main patterns of variation in plastome structure were revealed. Among these, the inversion from rbcL to trnV-UAC (Type I) characterized a monophyletic lineage of six families, but independently occurred also in Caldesia grandis. Three independent ndh gene loss events were uncovered across the Alismatidae. In addition, we detected a positive correlation between the number of repeat elements and the size of plastomes and IR in Alismatidae. CONCLUSION In our study, ndh complex loss and repeat elements likely contributed to the size of plastomes in Alismatidae. Also, the ndh loss was more likely related to IR boundary changes than the adaptation of aquatic habits. Based on existing divergence time estimation, the Type I inversion may have occurred during the Cretaceous-Paleogene in response to the extreme paleoclimate changes. Overall, our findings will not only allow exploring the evolutionary history of Alismatidae plastome, but also provide an opportunity to test if similar environmental adaptations result in convergent restructuring in plastomes.
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- Zhi-Zhong Li
- Aquatic Plant Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Herbarium, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, 20014, Finland.
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- Aquatic Plant Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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Over the past decade, advances in plant genotyping have been critical in enabling the identification of genetic diversity, in understanding evolution, and in dissecting important traits in both crops and native plants. The widespread popularity of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) has prompted significant improvements to SNP-based genotyping, including SNP arrays, genotyping by sequencing, and whole-genome resequencing. More recent approaches, including genotyping structural variants, utilizing pangenomes to capture species-wide genetic diversity and exploiting machine learning to analyze genotypic data sets, are pushing the boundaries of what plant genotyping can offer. In this chapter, we highlight these innovations and discuss how they will accelerate and advance future genotyping efforts.
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Lu JM, Du XY, Kuo LY, Ebihara A, Perrie LR, Zuo ZY, Shang H, Chang YH, Li DZ. Plastome phylogenomic analysis reveals evolutionary divergences of Polypodiales suborder Dennstaedtiineae. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:511. [PMID: 36319964 PMCID: PMC9628275 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03886-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Polypodiales suborder Dennstaedtiineae contain a single family Dennstaedtiaceae, eleven genera, and about 270 species, and include some groups that were previously placed in Dennstaedtiaceae, Hypolepidaceae, Monachosoraceae, and Pteridaceae. The classification and phylogenetic relationships among these eleven genera have been poorly understood. To explore the deep relationships within suborder Dennstaedtiineae and estimate the early diversification of this morphologically heterogeneous group, we analyzed complete plastomes of 57 samples representing all eleven genera of suborder Dennstaedtiineae using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. RESULTS The phylogenetic relationships of all the lineages in the bracken fern family Dennstaedtiaceae were well resolved with strong support values. All six genera of Hypolepidoideae were recovered as forming a monophyletic group with full support, and Pteridium was fully supported as sister to all the other genera in Hypolepidoideae. Dennstaedtioideae (Dennstaedtia s.l.) fell into four clades with full support: the Microlepia clade, the northern Dennstaedtia clade, the Dennstaedtia globulifera clade, and the Dennstaedtia s.s. clade. Monachosorum was strongly resolved as sister to all the remaining genera of suborder Dennstaedtiineae. Based on the well resolved relationships among genera, the divergence between Monachosorum and other groups of suborder Dennstaedtiineae was estimated to have occurred in the Early Cretaceous, and all extant genera (and clades) in Dennstaedtiineae, were inferred to have diversified since the Late Oligocene. CONCLUSION This study supports reinstating a previously published family Monachosoraceae as a segregate from Dennstaedtiaceae, based on unique morphological evidence, the shady habitat, and the deep evolutionary divergence from its closest relatives.
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- Jin-Mei Lu
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201, China.
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201, China
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005, Japan
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201, China
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- Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai, 201602, China
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- Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, 10066, Taiwan
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201, China.
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Nitta JH, Schuettpelz E, Ramírez-Barahona S, Iwasaki W. An open and continuously updated fern tree of life. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:909768. [PMID: 36092417 PMCID: PMC9449725 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.909768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Ferns, with about 12,000 species, are the second most diverse lineage of vascular plants after angiosperms. They have been the subject of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies, resulting in the publication of trees for every major clade and DNA sequences from nearly half of all species. Global fern phylogenies have been published periodically, but as molecular systematics research continues at a rapid pace, these become quickly outdated. Here, we develop a mostly automated, reproducible, open pipeline to generate a continuously updated fern tree of life (FTOL) from DNA sequence data available in GenBank. Our tailored sampling strategy combines whole plastomes (few taxa, many loci) with commonly sequenced plastid regions (many taxa, few loci) to obtain a global, species-level fern phylogeny with high resolution along the backbone and maximal sampling across the tips. We use a curated reference taxonomy to resolve synonyms in general compliance with the community-driven Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group I classification. The current FTOL includes 5,582 species, an increase of ca. 40% relative to the most recently published global fern phylogeny. Using an updated and expanded list of 51 fern fossil constraints, we find estimated ages for most families and deeper clades to be considerably older than earlier studies. FTOL and its accompanying datasets, including the fossil list and taxonomic database, will be updated on a regular basis and are available via a web portal (https://fernphy.github.io) and R packages, enabling immediate access to the most up-to-date, comprehensively sampled fern phylogeny. FTOL will be useful for anyone studying this important group of plants over a wide range of taxonomic scales, from smaller clades to the entire tree. We anticipate FTOL will be particularly relevant for macroecological studies at regional to global scales and will inform future taxonomic systems with the most recent hypothesis of fern phylogeny.
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- Joel H. Nitta
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
- Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Ke BF, Wang GJ, Labiak PH, Rouhan G, Chen CW, Shepherd LD, Ohlsen DJ, Renner MAM, Karol KG, Li FW, Kuo LY. Systematics and Plastome Evolution in Schizaeaceae. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:885501. [PMID: 35909781 PMCID: PMC9328107 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.885501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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While the family Schizaeaceae (Schizaeales) represents only about 0.4% of the extant fern species diversity, it differs from other ferns greatly in gross morphologies, niche preferences, and life histories. One of the most notable features in this family is its mycoheterotrophic life style in the gametophytic stage, which appears to be associated with extensive losses of plastid genes. However, the limited number of sequenced plastomes, and the lack of a well-resolved phylogenetic framework of Schizaeaceae, makes it difficult to gain any further insight. Here, with a comprehensive sampling of ~77% of the species diversity of this family, we first inferred a plastid phylogeny of Schizaeaceae using three DNA regions. To resolve the deep relationships within this family, we then reconstructed a plastome-based phylogeny focusing on a selection of representatives that covered all the major clades. From this phylogenomic backbone, we traced the evolutionary histories of plastid genes and examined whether gene losses were associated with the evolution of gametophytic mycoheterotrophy. Our results reveal that extant Schizaeaceae is comprised of four major clades-Microschizaea, Actinostachys, Schizaea, and Schizaea pusilla. The loss of all plastid NADH-like dehydrogenase (ndh) genes was confirmed to have occurred in the ancestor of extant Schizaeaceae, which coincides with the evolution of mycoheterotrophy in this family. For chlorophyll biosynthesis genes (chl), the losses were interpreted as convergent in Schizaeaceae, and found not only in Actinostachys, a clade producing achlorophyllous gametophytes, but also in S. pusilla with chlorophyllous gametophytes. In addition, we discovered a previously undescribed but phylogenetically distinct species hidden in the Schizaea dichotoma complex and provided a taxonomic treatment and morphological diagnostics for this new species-Schizaea medusa. Finally, our phylogenetic results suggest that the current PPG I circumscription of Schizaea is non-monophyletic, and we therefore proposed a three-genus classification moving a subset of Schizaea species sensu PPG I to a third genus-Microschizaea.
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- Bing-Feng Ke
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Depto. de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, EPHE, UA, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Life Science, Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
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- The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, United States
- Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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