TY - JOUR
T1 - From the north into the Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains
T2 - fossil-calibrated phylogenetic and biogeographical inference in the arctic-alpine genus Diapensia (Diapensiaceae)
AU - Hou, Yan
AU - Bjorå, Charlotte Sletten
AU - Ikeda, Hajime
AU - Brochmann, Christian
AU - Popp, Magnus
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Virginia Mirr? for support and assistance in the laboratory, the collectors and the staff at various herbaria (see Appendix?S1) and Yanping Guo for help to obtain material, Hiroyuki Higashi and Jun Wen for providing plant material, and Reidar Elven and David E. Boufford for help and discussions on the taxonomy of Diapensia. Three anonymous referees and the editor are gratefully acknowledged for providing useful and constructive criticism of a previous version of the manuscript. Funding was obtained from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, the Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio), Norway and the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
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PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - Aim: Many arctic species are believed to be descendants from ancestors that migrated northwards from high mountains during the formation of the modern arctic biome 2–3 million years ago (Ma). Here, we test whether this hypothesis is consistent with the biogeographical history of the arctic-alpine genus Diapensia, which shows a disjunction between the Arctic and the Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains (HHM). Location: The Arctic/sub-Arctic and the HHM. Methods: We used the plastid DNA (pDNA) sequences matK and rbcL and seven Ericales fossils to date the origin of Diapensia. Sequences of four pDNA markers and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer from 56 Diapenisa accessions were then used to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships and time of divergence among Diapensia species. Results: Diapensia consists of three major clades; two corresponding to the two arctic species, and one containing the two HHM species sampled. Both the pDNA tree and the species tree resolved the amphi-Beringian D. obovata as sister to a clade that included D. lapponica that has an amphi-Atlantic distribution and the HHM clade. The two arctic species were estimated to have originated in the Middle Miocene-Early Pliocene (D. obovata: 8.3 Ma, 95% highest posterior probability density (HPD) 4.0–13.5 Ma; D. lapponica: 7.1 Ma, 95% HPD 4.1–10.0 Ma), long before the formation of the modern arctic biome. In contrast, species divergence in the HHM clade was found to be very recent (0.5 Ma, 95% HPD 0.2–0.9 Ma; Early-Middle Pleistocene). Main conclusions: Our results reject an HHM origin of the arctic Diapensia and rather suggest that the ancestor of the D. lapponica/HHM clade migrated southwards into the HHM. This study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that arctic plant lineages have diverse origins in time and space.
AB - Aim: Many arctic species are believed to be descendants from ancestors that migrated northwards from high mountains during the formation of the modern arctic biome 2–3 million years ago (Ma). Here, we test whether this hypothesis is consistent with the biogeographical history of the arctic-alpine genus Diapensia, which shows a disjunction between the Arctic and the Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains (HHM). Location: The Arctic/sub-Arctic and the HHM. Methods: We used the plastid DNA (pDNA) sequences matK and rbcL and seven Ericales fossils to date the origin of Diapensia. Sequences of four pDNA markers and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer from 56 Diapenisa accessions were then used to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships and time of divergence among Diapensia species. Results: Diapensia consists of three major clades; two corresponding to the two arctic species, and one containing the two HHM species sampled. Both the pDNA tree and the species tree resolved the amphi-Beringian D. obovata as sister to a clade that included D. lapponica that has an amphi-Atlantic distribution and the HHM clade. The two arctic species were estimated to have originated in the Middle Miocene-Early Pliocene (D. obovata: 8.3 Ma, 95% highest posterior probability density (HPD) 4.0–13.5 Ma; D. lapponica: 7.1 Ma, 95% HPD 4.1–10.0 Ma), long before the formation of the modern arctic biome. In contrast, species divergence in the HHM clade was found to be very recent (0.5 Ma, 95% HPD 0.2–0.9 Ma; Early-Middle Pleistocene). Main conclusions: Our results reject an HHM origin of the arctic Diapensia and rather suggest that the ancestor of the D. lapponica/HHM clade migrated southwards into the HHM. This study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that arctic plant lineages have diverse origins in time and space.
KW - Arctic
KW - Diapensia
KW - Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains
KW - disjunction distribution
KW - divergence time
KW - molecular dating
KW - phylogeny
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U2 - 10.1111/jbi.12715
DO - 10.1111/jbi.12715
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963731943
VL - 43
SP - 1502
EP - 1513
JO - Journal of Biogeography
JF - Journal of Biogeography
SN - 0305-0270
IS - 8
ER -