Relationships between Tertiary relict and circumboreal woodland floras: a case study in Chimaphila (Ericaceae)
Relationships between Tertiary relict and circumboreal woodland floras: a case study in Chimaphila (Ericaceae)
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第三纪遗迹与环北林地植物区系之间的关系:以杜鹃花科(Chimaphila)为例
DOI:
10.1093/aob/mcz018
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Richard I. Milne
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作者:
Zhen-Wen Liu;Jing Zhou;Hua Peng;John V. Freudenstein;Richard I. Milne
Background and AimsTertiary relict and Arctic/circumboreal distributions are two major patterns of Northern Hemisphere intercontinental disjunctions with very different histories. Each has been well researched, but members of one biome have generally not been incorporated in the biogeographical analyses of the other, and links or transitions between these two biomes have rarely been addressed.MethodsPhylogenies ofChimaphilawere generated based on cpDNA and nuclear ITS, using Bayesian and maximum likelihood methods. A time-calibrated phylogeny was generated using BEAST. Ancestral area reconstruction was inferred using both statistical dispersal–vicariance analysis and a dispersal–extinction–cladogenesis model.Key ResultsTheChimaphilacrown group was estimated to have originated in the early Miocene. The lineages ofC. umbellatadiverged early, but its present circumboreal distribution was not achieved until around the middle Pliocene or later. Sister to this is a clade of four species with Tertiary relict distribution. Among these, two expansions occurred from North America to Asia, probably via the Bering Land Bridge, generating its current disjunctions.ConclusionsOur data concur with a few other studies, indicating that the circumboreal woodland biome has an older origin than most true Arctic–alpine taxa, having gradually recruited taxa since the early Oligocene. For the origin of Asia–North America disjunctions inChimaphila, an ‘out-of-America’ migration was supported. It is not clear in which direction Pyroloideae lineages moved between Tertiary relict disjunctions and Arctic/circumboreal distributions; each biome might have recruited species from the other.