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About Citation title: "Analysis of a plastid inverted repeat supermatrix for 246 taxa improves confidence in deeper level angiosperm relationships.".
About Study name: "Analysis of a plastid inverted repeat supermatrix for 246 taxa improves confidence in deeper level angiosperm relationships.".
About This study is part of submission 10493 (Status: Published).

Citation

Moore M.J., Hassan N., Gitzendanner M., Bruenn R., Croley M., Vandeventer A., Horn J., Dhingra A., Brockington S.F., Latvis M., Ramdial J., Alexandre R., Piedrahita A., Xi Z., Davis C., Soltis P., & Soltis D. 2011. Analysis of a plastid inverted repeat supermatrix for 246 taxa improves confidence in deeper level angiosperm relationships. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172(4): 541-558.

Authors

  • Moore M.J. (submitter) Phone 440-775-6876
  • Hassan N.
  • Gitzendanner M.
  • Bruenn R.
  • Croley M.
  • Vandeventer A.
  • Horn J.
  • Dhingra A.
  • Brockington S.F.
  • Latvis M.
  • Ramdial J.
  • Alexandre R.
  • Piedrahita A.
  • Xi Z.
  • Davis C.
  • Soltis P.
  • Soltis D.

Abstract

Recent studies employing complete plastid genome sequences have helped clarify the backbone phylogeny of angiosperms. However, the relatively limited taxon sampling in these studies has left several major clades poorly represented, precluding resolution of some regions of angiosperm phylogeny with strong support. Other recent work has suggested that the 25,000 bp plastid inverted repeat (IR) region may be a valuable source of characters for resolving these remaining problematic nodes. Consequently we constructed a data set of all available angiosperm IR sequences, resulting in a matrix of 24,702 aligned bases and 246 accessions, including 21 newly sequenced taxa. Maximum likelihood analyses of these data yielded a generally well-supported topology that was highly congruent with recent trees based on complete plastid genome sequences. Notably, IR analyses resolve Pentapetalae into three well-supported clades: (1) superasterids (including Santalales, Caryophyllales, Berberidopsidales, and Asteridae), (2) superrosids (including Vitales, Saxifragales, and Rosidae), and (3) Dilleniaceae, whose position as sister to remaining Pentapetalae had the highest maximum likelihood bootstrap support yet obtained for this recalcitrant clade using character-rich data sets. These results provide important new evidence for a stable, well-supported phylogenetic framework for angiosperms, and demonstrate the usefulness of IR data at deeper levels of angiosperm phylogeny.

Keywords

Angiosperm Tree of Life, plastid inverted repeat, phylogenetics, large data sets

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