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And if Engler was not completely wrong? Evidence for multiple evolutionary origins in the moss flora Of Macaronesia
Aigoin, Delphine; Devos, Nicolas; Huttunen, Sanna et al.
2009In Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, 63 (12), p. 3248–3257
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Keywords :
insular endemism; molecular dating; morphological evolution; bryophytes; fossils; Macaronesia
Abstract :
[en] The Macaronesian endemic flora has traditionally been interpreted as a relict of a subtropical element that spanned across Europe in the Tertiary. This hypothesis is revisited in the moss subfamily Helicodontioideae based on molecular divergence estimates derived from two independent calibration techniques either employing fossil evidence or using an Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) to sample absolute rates of nucleotide substitution from a prior distribution encompassing a wide range of rates documented across land plants. Both analyses suggest that the monotypic Madeiran endemic genus Hedenasiastrum diverged of other Helicodontioideae about 40 million years, that is, well before Macaronesian archipelagos actually emerged, in agreement with the relict hypothesis. Hedenasiastrum is characterized by a plesiomorphic morphology, which is suggestive of a complete morphological stasis over 40 million years. Macaronesian endemic Rhynchostegiella species, whose polyphyletic origin involves multiple colonization events, evolved much more recently, and yet accumulated many more morphological novelties than H. percurrens. The Macaronesian moss flora thus appears as a complex mix of ancient relicts and more recently dispersed, fast-evolving taxa.
Disciplines :
Genetics & genetic processes
Author, co-author :
Aigoin, Delphine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Taxonomie végétale et biologie de la conservation
Devos, Nicolas ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Taxonomie végétale et biologie de la conservation
Huttunen, Sanna
Ignatov, Michael
Gonzalez-Mancebo, Juana
Vanderpoorten, Alain ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Taxonomie végétale et biologie de la conservation
Language :
English
Title :
And if Engler was not completely wrong? Evidence for multiple evolutionary origins in the moss flora Of Macaronesia
Publication date :
December 2009
Journal title :
Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution
ISSN :
0014-3820
eISSN :
1558-5646
Publisher :
Society for the Study of Evolution, Lawrence, United States - Kansas
Volume :
63
Issue :
12
Pages :
3248–3257
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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