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Ecol Lett ; 18(10): 1021-9, 2015 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26248677

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Adaptation to changing environments often requires novel traits, but how such traits directly affect the ecological niche remains poorly understood. Multiple plant lineages have evolved C4 photosynthesis, a combination of anatomical and biochemical novelties predicted to increase productivity in warm and arid conditions. Here, we infer the dispersal history across geographical and environmental space in the only known species with both C4 and non-C4 genotypes, the grass Alloteropsis semialata. While non-C4 individuals remained confined to a limited geographic area and restricted ecological conditions, C4 individuals dispersed across three continents and into an expanded range of environments, encompassing the ancestral one. This first intraspecific investigation of C4 evolutionary ecology shows that, in otherwise similar plants, C4 photosynthesis does not shift the ecological niche, but broadens it, allowing dispersal into diverse conditions and over long distances. Over macroevolutionary timescales, this immediate effect can be blurred by subsequent specialisation towards more extreme niches.


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Adaptação Fisiológica/genética , Evolução Biológica , Ecossistema , Fotossíntese , Poaceae/genética , Genoma de Cloroplastos , Genoma de Planta , Genótipo , Filogenia , Poaceae/fisiologia
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