TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogeny of Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes based on chloroplast DNA markers
T2 - Between-lineage hybridisation during adaptive radiation?
AU - Milne, Richard
AU - Davies, Chantel
AU - Prickett, Ruby
AU - Inns, Lucy
AU - Chamberlain, David
PY - 2010/4/16
Y1 - 2010/4/16
N2 - Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes com- prises [200 highly interfertile species in SE Asia (mainly Himalayas and southern China) plus the 10–11 members of subsection Pontica (excluding R. hyperythrum) distributed outside SE Asia. Parsimony and Bayesian analyses of cpDNA matK and trnL-F sequence data divided Hyme- nanthes into two clades: clade H, in which two Pontica species and the SE Asian R. adenopodum were sister to a clade of 60 SE Asian species, and clade P comprising eight Pontica species plus R. praevernum, R. calophytum, and R. insigne from SE Asia. If these three species belong in Pontica, they expand its range substantially. However, as they have no morphological links to Pontica, they might descend from clade H species that captured chloroplasts from a now extinct species of Pontica. Either way, their distribution within the Chinese/Himalayan range of Rho- dodendron indicates an ancestor that came from the north or east to meet the diversifying group of Hymenanthes in the Himalayas, making the SE Asian members of Hyme- nanthes a polyphyletic group.
AB - Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes com- prises [200 highly interfertile species in SE Asia (mainly Himalayas and southern China) plus the 10–11 members of subsection Pontica (excluding R. hyperythrum) distributed outside SE Asia. Parsimony and Bayesian analyses of cpDNA matK and trnL-F sequence data divided Hyme- nanthes into two clades: clade H, in which two Pontica species and the SE Asian R. adenopodum were sister to a clade of 60 SE Asian species, and clade P comprising eight Pontica species plus R. praevernum, R. calophytum, and R. insigne from SE Asia. If these three species belong in Pontica, they expand its range substantially. However, as they have no morphological links to Pontica, they might descend from clade H species that captured chloroplasts from a now extinct species of Pontica. Either way, their distribution within the Chinese/Himalayan range of Rho- dodendron indicates an ancestor that came from the north or east to meet the diversifying group of Hymenanthes in the Himalayas, making the SE Asian members of Hyme- nanthes a polyphyletic group.
KW - extinction by hybridisation
KW - Himalaya
KW - chloroplast capture
KW - rhododendron
KW - adaptive radiation
U2 - 10.1007/s00606-010-0269-2
DO - 10.1007/s00606-010-0269-2
M3 - Article
VL - 285
SP - 233
EP - 244
JO - Plant Systematics and Evolution
JF - Plant Systematics and Evolution
SN - 0378-2697
IS - 3-4
ER -