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Molecular phylogenetics of the Meteoriaceae s. str.: focusing on the genera Meteorium and Papillaria




TekijätQuandt D, Huttunen S, Streimann H, Frahm JP, Frey W

KustantajaACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Julkaisuvuosi2004

Lehti: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiMOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Lehden akronyymiMOL PHYLOGENET EVOL

Vuosikerta32

Numero2

Aloitussivu435

Lopetussivu461

Sivujen määrä27

ISSN1055-7903

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.012


Tiivistelmä
In order to delimit and understand the evolution of the Meteoriaceae, we provide phylogenetic analyses using the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of nuclear ribosomal DNA in combination with two plastid markers, trnL-F and psbT-H. In contrast to the widely used trnL-F region, the psbT-H gene cluster, coding for proteins of photosystem II, has been rarely used to address systematic questions among the different land plant lineages. To overcome the problem of potential ambiguous alignments of non-coding DNA regions, the data were independently analyzed using direct optimization. The comparison and evaluation of the obtained results showed that the inferred cladograms based on the different phylogenetic approaches are very similar, with only minor differences. In combination with morphological characters, generic relationships as well as taxonomic and nomenclatural problems, especially regarding the key genera Meteorium and Papillaria are discussed in detail. New insights into generic relationships of the Meteoriaceae are provided, such as the exclusion of the monospecific southern South American genera Ancistrodes and Cryphaeophilum, which are subsequently transferred to the Hookeriaceae and Cryphaeaceae, respectively. Phylogenetic reconstructions using maximum likelihood as well as parsimony approaches reveal that at the familial level the Meteoriaceae s.1. are polyphyletic, if the formerly recognized "Trachypodaceae" are considered as a separate family. Based on our results we favor the synonym of the Trachypodaceae with the Meteoriaceae. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.



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