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Supplementary Material for: Polyploidy and Hybridization as Main Factors of Speciation: Complex Reticulate Evolution within the Grass Genus Helictochloa

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posted on 2014-04-09, 00:00 authored by Winterfeld G., Schneider J., Perner K., Röser M.
To study the origin and evolution of naturally occurring polyploids, we performed phylogenetic analyses of nuclear ribosomal DNA spacers combined with molecular cytogenetics in 55 accessions of 27 taxa of the oat genus Helictochloa. A complex pattern of reticulate evolution was revealed with many diploid species and extensive polyploidy up to 20x. Altogether 11 groups of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences can be distinguished. Sequences from 1-3 different ITS lineages were detected in polyploids. Cytogenetic data allow reconstruction of 8 basic monoploid chromosome sets. Six of these genomes occur in different combinations in the polyploid species. Two genomes are only found in diploids. Our sequence and karyological data highlight the occurrence of autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy, provide new information about the evolutionary history of taxa, and allow a more accurate systematic treatment of the concerned species. The geographical distribution of the 11 ITS lineages distinguished is highly structured and points to an origin of the genus in western Asia, presumably in grasslands like steppes or mountain steppes and meadows. The evolutionary basal lineages are of Asian, Minor Asian and east Mediterranean distribution and are present also in North America. The western and central parts of the Mediterranean and northern Europe harbor the modern lineages.

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