TY - JOUR
T1 - Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Johnson, Matthew G.
AU - Cox, Cymon J.
AU - Medina, Rafael
AU - Devos, Nicolas
AU - Vanderpoorten, Alain
AU - Hedenäs, Lars
AU - Bell, Neil E.
AU - Shevock, James R.
AU - Aguero, Blanka
AU - Quandt, Dietmar
AU - Wickett, Norman J.
AU - Shaw, A. Jonathan
AU - Goffinet, Bernard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification, spanning at least 400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous due to the lack of fossils, massive early extinctions, late radiations, limited morphological variation, and conflicting signal among previously used markers. Here, we present phylogenetic reconstructions based on complete organellar exomes and a comparable set of nuclear genes for this major lineage of land plants. Our analysis of 142 species representing 29 of the 30 moss orders reveals that relative average rates of non-synonymous substitutions in nuclear versus plastid genes are much higher in mosses than in seed plants, consistent with the emerging concept of evolutionary dynamism in mosses. Our results highlight the evolutionary significance of taxa with reduced morphologies, shed light on the relative tempo and mechanisms underlying major cladogenic events, and suggest hypotheses for the relationships and delineation of moss orders.
AB - Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification, spanning at least 400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous due to the lack of fossils, massive early extinctions, late radiations, limited morphological variation, and conflicting signal among previously used markers. Here, we present phylogenetic reconstructions based on complete organellar exomes and a comparable set of nuclear genes for this major lineage of land plants. Our analysis of 142 species representing 29 of the 30 moss orders reveals that relative average rates of non-synonymous substitutions in nuclear versus plastid genes are much higher in mosses than in seed plants, consistent with the emerging concept of evolutionary dynamism in mosses. Our results highlight the evolutionary significance of taxa with reduced morphologies, shed light on the relative tempo and mechanisms underlying major cladogenic events, and suggest hypotheses for the relationships and delineation of moss orders.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-09454-w
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-09454-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 30940807
AN - SCOPUS:85063749214
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 1485
ER -