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Reticulate evolution helps explain apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination in baobabs (Adansonia; Bombacoideae; Malvaceae)
Systematic Biology
  • Nisa Karimi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Corrinne E. Grover, Iowa State University
  • Joseph P. Gallagher, Iowa State University
  • Jonathan F. Wendel, Iowa State University
  • Cécile Ané, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • David A. Baum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
11-6-2019
DOI
10.1093/sysbio/syz073
Abstract

Baobabs (Adansonia) are a cohesive group of tropical trees with a disjunct distribution in Australia, Madagascar, and continental Africa, and diverse flowers associated with two pollination modes. We used custom targeted sequence capture in conjunction with new and existing phylogenetic comparative methods to explore the evolution of floral traits and pollination systems while allowing for reticulate evolution. Our analyses suggest that relationships in Adansonia are confounded by reticulation, with network inference methods supporting at least one reticulation event. The best supported hypothesis involves introgression between A. rubrostipa and core Longitubae, both of which are hawkmoth pollinated with yellow/red flowers, but there is also some support for introgression between the African lineage and Malagasy Brevitubae, which are both mammal-pollinated with white flowers. New comparative methods for phylogenetic networks were developed that allow maximum-likelihood inference of ancestral states and were applied to study the apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination mode seen in Adansonia. This analysis supports a role for introgressive hybridization in morphological evolution even in a clade with highly divergent and geographically widespread species. Our new comparative methods for discrete traits on species networks are implemented in the software PhyloNetworks.

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This is a manuscript of an article published as Karimi, Nisa, Corrinne E. Grover, Joseph P. Gallagher, Jonathan F. Wendel, Cécile Ané, and David A. Baum. "Reticulate evolution helps explain apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination in baobabs (Adansonia; Bombacoideae; Malvaceae)." Systematic biology (2019). doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz073. Posted with permission.

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Nisa Karimi, Corrinne E. Grover, Joseph P. Gallagher, Jonathan F. Wendel, et al.. "Reticulate evolution helps explain apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination in baobabs (Adansonia; Bombacoideae; Malvaceae)" Systematic Biology (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_wendel/86/