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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Using fossils and molecular data to reveal the origins of the Cape proteas (subfamily Proteoideae)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 51, No. 1, Year 2009
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The angiosperm family Proteaceae is a distinct component of the Cape Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot with 330 endemic species. Phylogenetic analyses of subfamily Proteoideae using sequence data from one nuclear and six plastid loci show that most of this diversity is contained in two distinct Cape floral clades. Molecular dating analyses, using Bayesian and penalized likelihood methods and four phylogenetically supported fossil age constraints, reveal contrasting histories for these two clades. The genus Protea belongs to a lineage that may have been in Africa since the Late Cretaceous but began to diversify in the Cape only 5-18 Myr ago. In contrast, the Leucadendrinae clade presumably arrived in the region no earlier than 46 Myr ago by long-distance dispersal from an Australian ancestor and the extant members of this clade began to diversify in the Cape 22-39 Myr ago. These results join a growing number of case studies that challenge the commonly accepted view that most of the Cape flora radiated synchronously in the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene when a Mediterranean climate settled in the region. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Sauquet, Hervé D.Sign©
United Kingdom, Richmond
Jodrell Laboratory
Australia, Sydney
National Herbarium of new South Wales
Sweden, Stockholm
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
Weston, Peter H.
Australia, Sydney
National Herbarium of new South Wales
Barker, Nigel Paul
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Anderson, Cajsa Lisa
Sweden, Uppsala
Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum
Cantrill, David J.
Sweden, Stockholm
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
Australia, Melbourne
National Herbarium of Victoria
Savolainen, Vincent
United Kingdom, Richmond
Jodrell Laboratory
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Statistics
Citations: 50
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.013
ISSN:
10557903
e-ISSN:
10959513
Research Areas
Cancer