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Demographic dynamics and molecular evolution of the rare and endangered subsect. Gerardianae of Pinus: insights from chloroplast genomes and mitochondrial DNA markers
Ist Teil von
Planta, 2024-02, Vol.259 (2), p.45-45, Article 45
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Main Conclusion
The divergence of subsect.
Gerardianae
was likely triggered by the uplift of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and adjacent mountains.
Pinus bungeana
might have probably experienced expansion since Last Interglacial period.
Historical geological and climatic oscillations have profoundly affected patterns of nucleotide variability, evolutionary history, and species divergence in numerous plants of the Northern Hemisphere. However, how long-lived conifers responded to geological and climatic fluctuations in East Asia remain poorly understood. Here, based on paternally inherited chloroplast genomes and maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA markers, we investigated the population demographic history and molecular evolution of subsect.
Gerardianae
(only including three species,
Pinus bungeana
,
P
.
gerardiana
,
and P
.
squamata
) of
Pinus
. A low level of nucleotide diversity was found in
P
.
bungeana
(
π
was 0.00016 in chloroplast DNA sequences, and 0.00304 in mitochondrial DNAs). The haplotype-based phylogenetic topology and unimodal distributions of demographic analysis suggested that
P
.
bungeana
probably originated in the southern Qinling Mountains and experienced rapid population expansion since Last Interglacial period. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that
P
.
gerardiana
and
P
.
squamata
had closer genetic relationship. The species divergence of subsect.
Gerardianae
occurred about 27.18 million years ago (Mya) during the middle to late Oligocene, which was significantly associated with the uplift of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and adjacent mountains from the Eocene to the mid-Pliocene. The molecular evolutionary analysis showed that two chloroplast genes (
psaI
and
ycf1
) were under positive selection, the genetic lineages of
P
.
bungeana
exhibited higher transition and nonsynonymous mutations, which were involved with the strongly environmental adaptation. These findings shed light on the population evolutionary history of white pine species and provide striking insights for comprehension of their species divergence and molecular evolution.