The evolutionary history of rice azaleas (Rhododendron tschonoskii alliance) involved niche evolution to a montane environment.
Am J Bot
; 110(4): e16166, 2023 04.
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ABSTRACT
PREMISE The formation of isolated montane geography on islands promotes evolution, speciation, and then radiation if there are ecological changes. Thus, investigating evolutionary histories of montane species and associated ecological changes may help efforts to understand how endemism formed in islands' montane floras. To explore this process, we investigated the evolutionary history of the Rhododendron tschonoskii alliance, which grows in montane environments of the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula. METHODS:
We studied the five species in the R. tschonoskii alliance and 30 outgroup species, using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms and cpDNA sequences, in association with environmental analyses.RESULTS:
The monophyletic R. tschonoskii alliance diverged since the late Miocene. Species in the alliance currently inhabit a cold climatic niche that is largely different from that of the outgroup species. We observed clear genetic and niche differentiations between the taxa of the alliance.CONCLUSIONS:
The association of the alliance's evolution with the formation of cooler climates on mountains indicates that it was driven by global cooling since the mid-Miocene and by rapid uplift of mountains since the Pliocene. The combination of geographic and climatic isolation promoted high genetic differentiation between taxa, which has been maintained by climatic oscillations since the Quaternary.Palabras clave
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Am J Bot
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2023
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Japón