• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Resolving the northern hemisphere source region for the long-distance dispersal event that gave rise to the South American endemic dung moss Tetraplodon fuegianus
  • Beteiligte: Lewis, Lily R.; Biersma, Elisabeth M.; Carey, Sarah B.; Holsinger, Kent; McDaniel, Stuart F.; Rozzi, Ricardo; Goffinet, Bernard
  • Erschienen: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2017
  • Erschienen in: American Journal of Botany
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0002-9122; 1537-2197
  • Schlagwörter: RESEARCH ARTICLE
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  • Beschreibung: <sec> <label>PREMISE OF THE STUDY:</label> <p>American bipolar plant distributions characterize taxa at various taxonomic ranks but are most common in the bryophytes at infraspecific and infrageneric levels. A previous study on the bipolar disjunction in the dung moss genus <italic>Tetraplodon</italic> found that direct long-distance dispersal from North to South in the Miocene–Pleistocene accounted for the origin of the Southern American endemic <italic>Tetraplodon fuegianus</italic>, congruent with other molecular studies on bipolar bryophytes. The previous study, however, remained inconclusive regarding a specific northern hemisphere source region for the transequatorial dispersal event that gave rise to <italic>T</italic>. <italic>fuegianus</italic>.</p> </sec> <sec> <label>METHODS:</label> <p>To estimate spatial genetic structure and phylogeographic relationships within the bipolar lineage of <italic>Tetraplodon</italic>, which includes <italic>T</italic>. <italic>fuegianus</italic>, we analyzed thousands of restriction-site-associated DNA (RADseq) loci and single nucleotide polymorphisms using Bayesian individual assignment and maximum likelihood and coalescent model based phylogenetic approaches.</p> </sec> <sec> <label>KEY RESULTS:</label> <p>Northwestern North America is the most likely source of the recent ancestor to <italic>T</italic>. <italic>fuegianus</italic>.</p> </sec> <sec> <label>CONCLUSIONS:</label> <p> <italic>Tetraplodon fuegianus</italic>, which marks the southernmost populations in the bipolar lineage of <italic>Tetraplodon</italic>, arose following a single longdistance dispersal event involving a <italic>T</italic>. <italic>mnioides</italic> lineage that is now rare in the northern hemisphere and potentially restricted to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Furthermore, gene flow between sympatric lineages of <italic>Tetraplodon mnioides</italic> in the northern hemisphere is limited, possibly due to high rates of selfing or reproductive isolation.</p> </sec>
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