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Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL

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Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL

Chase, Mark W., Soltis, Douglas E., Olmstead, Richard G., Morgan, David, Les, Donald H., Mishler, Brent D., Duvall, Melvin R., Price, Robert A., Hills, Harold G., Qiu, Yin-Long, Kron, Kathleen A., Rettig, Jeffrey H., Conti, Elena, Palmer, Jeffrey D., Manhart, James R., Sytsma, Kenneth J., Michaels, Helen J., Kress, W. John, Karol, Kenneth G., Clark, W. Dennis, Hedren, Mikael, Gaut, Brandon S., Jansen, Robert K., Kim, Ki-Joong, Wimpee, Charles F., Smith, James F., Furnier, Glenn R., Strauss, Steven H., Xiang, Qui-Yun, Plunkett, Gregory M., Soltis, Pamela S., Swensen, Susan M., Williams, Stephen E., Gadek, Paul A., Quinn, Christopher J., Eguiarte, Luis E., Golenberg, Edward, Learn, Gerald H., Graham, Sean W., Barrett, Spencer C. H., Dayanandan, Selvadurai and Albert, Victor A. (1993) Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 80 (3). pp. 528-580. ISSN 0026-6493

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Abstract

We present the results of two exploratory parsimony analyses of DNA sequences from 475 and 499 species of seed plants, respectively, representing all major taxonomic groups. The data are exclusively from the chloroplast gene rbcL, which codes for the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO or RuBPCase). We used two different state-transformation assumptions resulting in two sets of cladograms: (i) equal-weighting for the 499-taxon analysis; and (ii) a procedure that differentially weights transversions over transitions within characters and codon positions among characters for the 475-taxon analysis. The degree of congruence between these results and other molecular, as well as morphological, cladistic studies indicates that rbcL sequence variation contains historical evidence appropriate for phylogenetic analysis at this taxonomic level of sampling. Because the topologies presented are necessarily approximate and cannot be evaluated adequately for internal support, these results should be assessed from the perspective of their predictive value and used to direct future studies, both molecular and morphological. In both analyses, the three genera of Gnetales are placed together as the sister group of the flowering plants, and the anomalous aquatic Ceratophyllum (Ceratophyllaceae) is sister to all other flowering plants. Several major lineages identified correspond well with at least some recent taxonomic schemes for angiosperms, particularly those of Dahlgren and Thorne. The basalmost clades within the angiosperms are orders of the apparently polyphyletic subclass Magnoliidae sensu Cronquist. The most conspicuous feature of the topology is that the major division is not monocot versus dicot, but rather one correlated with general pollen type: uniaperturate versus triaperturate. The Dilleniidae and Hamamelidae are the only subclasses that are grossly polyphyletic; an examination of the latter is presented as an example of the use of these broad analyses to focus more restricted studies. A broadly circumscribed Rosidae is paraphyletic to Asteridae and Dilleniidae. Subclass Caryophyllidae is monophyletic and derived from within Rosidae in the 475-taxon analysis but is sister to a group composed of broadly delineated Asteridae and Rosidae in the 499-taxon study.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Biology
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Chase, Mark W. and Soltis, Douglas E. and Olmstead, Richard G. and Morgan, David and Les, Donald H. and Mishler, Brent D. and Duvall, Melvin R. and Price, Robert A. and Hills, Harold G. and Qiu, Yin-Long and Kron, Kathleen A. and Rettig, Jeffrey H. and Conti, Elena and Palmer, Jeffrey D. and Manhart, James R. and Sytsma, Kenneth J. and Michaels, Helen J. and Kress, W. John and Karol, Kenneth G. and Clark, W. Dennis and Hedren, Mikael and Gaut, Brandon S. and Jansen, Robert K. and Kim, Ki-Joong and Wimpee, Charles F. and Smith, James F. and Furnier, Glenn R. and Strauss, Steven H. and Xiang, Qui-Yun and Plunkett, Gregory M. and Soltis, Pamela S. and Swensen, Susan M. and Williams, Stephen E. and Gadek, Paul A. and Quinn, Christopher J. and Eguiarte, Luis E. and Golenberg, Edward and Learn, Gerald H. and Graham, Sean W. and Barrett, Spencer C. H. and Dayanandan, Selvadurai and Albert, Victor A.
Journal or Publication:Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Date:1993
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.2307/2399846
ID Code:6741
Deposited By: Danielle Dennie
Deposited On:21 Jun 2010 21:12
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:29
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