Homoploid hybrids are common but evolutionary dead ends, whereas polyploidy is not linked to hybridization in a group of Pyrenean saxifrages
Carnicero, Pau (University of Innsbruck. Department of Botany)
Kroell, Joelle (University of Innsbruck. Department of Botany)
Schönswetter, Peter (University of Innsbruck)

Data:	2023
Descripció:	12 pàg.
Resum:	Hybridization and polyploidy are major forces in plant evolution. Homoploid hybridization can generate new species via hybrid speciation, or modify extant evolutionary lineages through introgression. Polyploidy enables instantaneous reproductive isolation from the parental lineage(s) and is often coupled with evolutionary in-novations, especially when linked to hybridization. While allopolyploidy is a well-known and common mecha-nism of plant speciation, the evolutionary role of autopolyploidy might have been underestimated. Here, we studied the saxifrages of Saxifraga subsection Saxifraga in the Pyrenees, which easily hybridise and include polyploid populations of uncertain origin, as a model to unravel evolutionary consequences and origin of hy-bridization and polyploidy. Additionally, we investigate the phylogenetic relationship between the two sub-species of the endemic S. pubescens to ascertain whether they should rather be treated as different species. For these purposes, we combined ploidy-informed restriction associated DNA analyses, plastid DNA sequences and morphological data on a comprehensive population sample of seven species. Our results unravel multiple homoploid hybridization events at the diploid level between different species pairs, but with limited evolutionary impact. The ploidy-informed analyses reveal that all tetraploid populations detected in the present study belong to the widespread alpine species S. moschata. Although of autopolyploid origin, they are to some extent morphologically differentiated and underwent a different evolutionary pathway than their diploid parent. However, the high plastid DNA diversity and the internal structure within eastern and western population groups suggest multiple origins of the polyploids. Finally, our phylogenetic analyses show that S. pubescens and S. iratiana are clearly not sister lineages, and should consequently be considered as independent species.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Autopolyploidy ; Hybridization ; Introgression ; Morphometrics ; RADseq ; Saxifraga
Publicat a:	Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, Vol. 180 (March 2023) , art. 107703, ISSN 1095-9513

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107703
PMID: 36632928

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