CiteULike CiteULike
Delicious Delicious
Connotea Connotea

Citation for Study 23200

About Citation title: "Phylogeny, historical biogeography and diversification rates in an economically important group of Neotropical palms: Tribe Euterpeae".
About Study name: "Phylogeny, historical biogeography and diversification rates in an economically important group of Neotropical palms: Tribe Euterpeae".
About This study is part of submission 23200 (Status: Published).

Citation

Pichardo-marcano F.J., Nieto-blazquez M.E., Macdonald A.N., Galeano G., & Roncal J. 2018. Phylogeny, historical biogeography and diversification rates in an economically important group of Neotropical palms: Tribe Euterpeae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, .

Authors

  • Pichardo-marcano F.J.
  • Nieto-blazquez M.E.
  • Macdonald A.N.
  • Galeano G.
  • Roncal J. (submitter) Phone +1 709 3516771

Abstract

Tribe Euterpeae is an economically and ecologically important group of Neotropical palms (Arecaceae). Some species are hyperdominant in the Neotropics, and many constitute a good source of revenue. To reconstruct the biogeographical history and diversification of the Euterpeae, we inferred a robust dated molecular phylogenetic hypothesis including 82% of the species sequenced for five DNA regions (trnD-trnT, CISP4, WRKY6, RPB2, and PHYB). Ancestral range was estimated using all models available in BioGeoBEARS and Binary State Speciation and Extinction analysis was used to evaluate the association of biome and inflorescence type with diversification rates. All intergeneric relationships were resolved providing insight on the taxonomic controversy of Jessenia, Euterpe and Prestoea. Three widely distributed Neotropical species were non-monophyletic, inviting a revision of species circumscriptions. The Euterpeae started its diversification in the mid Eocene (40 Mya), with most species-level divergence events occurring in the last 10 million years. Four colonization events from Central to South America were inferred. Different diversification rates were associated with biomes but not with inflorescence type. Tribe Euterpeae?s ancestral biome was the lowland rainforest attesting to the importance of lowland adapted lineages on the assembly of montane flora. The two-fold higher speciation rate for montane taxa (compared with lowland rainforest taxa) was contemporaneous to the Andean orogenic uplift. The specialized beetle pollination of Oenocarpus with its hippuriform (horsetail shape) inflorescence did not seem to have influenced diversification rates in Euterpeae. Future studies should conduct a direct test of the effect of pollinators on palm diversification rates.

Keywords

ancestral range estimation, Arecaceae, biome, inflorescence, tropical America, trait-dependent diversification rates

External links

About this resource

  • Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S23200
  • Other versions: Download Reconstructed NEXUS File Nexus Download NeXML File NeXML
  • Show BibTeX reference
  • Show RIS reference