Evolutionary relationships of the New Caledonian heterotrophic conifer, Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae), inferred from chloroplast trnL-F intron/spacer and nuclear rDNA ITS2 sequences

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 79-104

  Sinclair, W T ^a   Mill, R R ^b   Gardner, M F ^b   Woltz, P ^c   Jaffre T ^d   Preston, J ^b   Hollingsworth, M L ^b   Ponge, A ^b   Moller M ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Chloroplast trnL F; Heterotrophy; Molecular phylogeny; New Caledonia; Nuclear ITS; Parasitaxus usta; Podocarpaceae

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FALCATIFOLIUM; FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES; LAGAROSTROBOS; LEPIDOTHAMNUS; PARASITAXUS; PARASITAXUS USTA; PHYLLOCLADUS; PODOCARPACEAE;

EID: 0036709322     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-002-0199-8     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Baldwin B. G., Sanderson M. J., Porter J. M., Wojciechowski M. F., Campbell C. S., Donoghue M. J. (1995) The ITS region of nuclear ribosomal DNA: a valuable source of evidence on Angiosperm phylogeny. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 82: 247-277.
2. Bayer R. J., Starr J. R. (1998) Tribal phylogeny of the Asteraceae based on two non-coding chloroplast sequences, the trnL intron and trnL/trnF intergenic spacer. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 242-256.
3. Bobrov A. V. F. C., Melikian A. P. (1998) Sistematicheskoe polozhenie roda Parasitaxus de Laub. (Podocarpaceae s.l.) po dannym stroeniya semyan [Systematic relationships of genus Parasitaxus de Laub. (Podocarpaceae s.l.) on base of seed structure. Proc. II (X) Congr. Russian Bot. Soc., St. Petersburg, Russian Acad. Sci. 1: 12.
4. Bobrov A. V. F. C., Melikian A. P., Yembaturova E. Y. (1999) Seed morphology, anatomy and ultrastructure of Phyllocladus L. C. & A. Rich. ex Mirb. (Phyllocladaceae (Pilg.) Bessey) in connection with the generic system and phylogeny. Ann. Bot. 83: 601-618.
5. Bobrov A. V. F. C., Romanov M. S. (1999) Seed coat structure and systematic relationships of Sundacarpus amara (Blume) C. N. Page (Podocarpaceae (Dumort.) Endl. s.l.). 14 Symp. Biodiversität Evolutionsbiologie Jena 1999: 20.
6. Brodribb T., Hill R. S. (1997) Imbricacy and stomatal wax plugs reduce maximum leaf conductance in southern hemisphere conifers. Austral. J. Bot. 45(4): 657-668.
7. Buchholz J. T., Gray N. E. (1948a) A taxonomic revision of Podocarpus I. The sections of the genus and their subdivisions with special reference to leaf anatomy. J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 49-63.
8. Buchholz J. T., Gray N. E. (1948b) A taxonomic revision of Podocarpus II. The American species of Podocarpus: section Stachycarpus. J. Arnold Arbor. 29: 64-76.
9. Campbell C. S., Donoghue M. J., Baldwin B. G., Wojciechowski M. F. (1995) Phylogenetic relationships in the Maloideae (Rosaceae), evidence from sequences of the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA and ITS congruence with morphology. Amer. J. Bot. 82: 903-918.
10. Chaw S.-M., Sung H.-M., Long H., Zharkikh A., Li W.-H. (1995) The phylogenetic positions of the conifer genera Amentotaxus, Phyllocladus and Nageia inferred from 18S nrDNA sequences. J. Mol. Evol. 41: 224-230.
11. Chaw S.-M., Zharkikh A., Sung H.-M., Lau T.-C., Li W.-H. (1997) Molecular phylogeny of extant gymnosperms and seed plant evolution: analysis of nuclear 18S rRNA sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14: 56-68.
12. Cherrier J.-F., Gondran M., Woltz P., Vogt G. (1992) Parasitisme interspécifique chez les Gymnospermes; Donnés inédites chez deux Podocarpaceae endémiques Néo-Calédoniennes. Rev. Cytol. Biol. Végét.-Bot. 15: 65-87.
13. Conran J. G., Wood G. G., Martin P. G., Dowd J. M., Quinn C. J., Gadek P. A., Price R. A. (2000) Generic relationships within and between the Gymnosperm families Podocarpaceae and Phyllocladaceae based on an analysis of the chloroplast gene rbcL. Austral. J. Bot. 48: 715-724.
14. de Laubenfels D. J. (1953) The external morphology of coniferous leaves. Phytomorphology 3: 1-20.
15. de Laubenfels D. J. (1959) Parasitic conifer found in New Caledonia. Science 130: 97.
16. de Laubenfels D. J. (1972) Gymnospermes. In: Aubreville A., Leroy J. F. (eds.) Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, fascicule 4. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
17. Delavault P., Sakanyan V., Thalouarn P. (1995) Divergent evolution of two plastid genes, rbcL and atpB, in a non-photosynthetic parasitic plant. Plant Mol. Biol. 29(5): 1071-1079.
18. Doweld A. B., Reveal J. L. ('1998' publ. 1999) Validation of new suprageneric names in Pinophyta. Phytologia 84: 363-367.
19. Doyle J. J., Doyle J. L. (1987) A rapid DNA isolation procedure for small quantities of fresh leaf tissue. Phytochem. Bull. 19: 11-15.
20. Doyle J., Looby W. J. (1939) Embryogeny in Saxegothaea and its relation to other podocarps. Sci. Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc. 22: 127-147.
21. Eriksson T. (1999) AutoDecay 4.0 (program distributed by the author). Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.
22. Farris J. S. (1989) The retention index and homoplasy excess. Syst. Zool. 38: 406-407.
23. Florin R. (1931) Untersuchungen zur Stammesgeschichte der Coniferales und Cordaitales. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakad. Handl., ser. 5, 10: 1-588.
24. Gamerro J. C. (1995) Morfologia del polen de Saxegothaea conspicua (Podocarpaceae). Darwiniana 33: 295-300.
25. Gaussen H. (1976) Les gymnospermes actuelles et fossiles. Genre Podocarpus. Conclusion des Podocarpines. Trav. Lab. Forest. Toulouse Tome 2 vol. 1, fascicule XIV chap. XXI.
26. Gielly L., Taberlet P. (1996) A phylogeny of European gentians inferred from chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron sequences. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 120: 57-75.
27. Gray N. E. (1960) A taxonomic revision of Podocarpus, XII. Section Microcarpus. J. Arnold Arbor. 41: 36-39.
28. Gray N. E., Buchholz J. T. (1951) A taxonomic revision of Podocarpus, V. The South Pacific species of Podocarpus: section Podocarpus. J. Arnold Arbor. 32: 82-92.
29. Hart J. A. (1987) A cladistic analysis of conifers: preliminary results. J. Arnold Arbor. 68: 269-307.
30. Hershkovitz M. A., Zimmer E. A. (1996) Conservation patterns in angiosperm nrDNA ITS2 sequences. Nuc. Acids Res. 24: 2857-2867.
31. Hill R. S., Brodribb T. J. (1999) Southern conifers in time and space. Austral. J. Bot. 47: 639-696.
32. Hill R. S., Carpenter R. J. (1991) Evolution of Acmopyle and Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae) foliage as inferred from macrofossils in southeastern Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 4: 449-479.
33. Hollingsworth M. L., Bailey J. P., Hollingsworth P. M., Ferris C. (1999) Chloroplast DNA variation and hybridisation between invasive populations of Japanese Knotweed and Giant Knotweed (Fallopia, Polygonaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 129: 139-154.
34. Hull H. M., Morton H. L., Wherrie J. R. (1975) Environmental influences on cuticle development and resultant foliar penetration. Bot. Rev. 41: 421-452.
35. Jaffré T. (1995) Distribution and ecology of the conifers of New Caledonia. In: Enright N. J., Hill R. S. (eds.) Ecology of the southern conifers. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, pp. 171-196.
36. Kelch D. G. (1995) Sequence data from 18S nrDNA: its bearing on the phylogeny of the Podocarpaceae (Coniferales). Amer. J. Bot. 82: (6 Suppl.) 139.
37. Kelch D. G. (1997) The phylogeny of the Podocarpaceae based on morphological evidence. Syst. Bot. 22: 113-131.
38. Kelch D. G. (1998) Phylogeny of the Podocarpaceae: comparison of evidence from morphology and 18S rDNA. Amer. J. Bot. 85: 986-996.
39. Kelch D. G. (2002) Phylogenetic assessment of the monotypic genera Sundacarpus and Manoao (Coniferales: Podocarpaceae) utilising evidence from 18S rDNA sequences. Austral. Syst. Bot. 15: 29-35.
40. Keng H. (1975) A new scheme of classification of the conifers. Taxon 24: 289-292.
41. Kluge A. G., Farris J. S. (1969) Quantitative phyletics and the evolution of anurans. Syst. Zool. 18: 1-32.
42. Köpke E., Musselman L. J., de Laubenfels D. J. (1983) Studies on the anatomy of Parasitaxus ustus and its root connections. Phytomorphol. 31: 85-92.
43. Liston A., Robinson W. A., Oliphant J. M., Alvarez-Buylla E. R. (1996) Length variation in the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region of non-flowering seed plants. Syst. Bot. 21: 109-120.
44. Maddison W. P., Maddison D. R. (1997) MacClade, Version 3.07. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
45. Mai J. C., Coleman A. W. (1997) The internal transcribed spacer 2 exhibits a common secondary structure in green algae and flowering plants. J. Molec. Evol. 44: 258-271.
46. Mast A. R. (1998) Molecular systematics of subtribe Banksiinae (Banksia and Dryandra; Proteaceae) based on cpDNA and nrDNA sequence data; implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Austral. Syst. Bot. 11: 321-342.
47. Melikian A. P., Bobrov A. V. (2000) Morfologiya shchenskikh reproduktivi'kh obganov i op't rostroenniya filogeneticheskoj sistemy poryadkov Podocarpales, Cephalotaxales i Taxales. [Morphology of female reproductive structures and an attempt of the construction of phylogenetic system of orders Podocarpales, Cephalotaxales, and Taxales]. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 85(7): 50-68.
48. Miller C. N. (1999) Implications of fossil conifers for the phylogenetic relationships of living families. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 65: 239-277.
49. Möller M., Cronk Q. C. B. (1997) Origin and relationships of Saintpaulia (Gesneriaceae) based on ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. Amer. J. Bot. 84: 956-965.
50. Möller M., Mill R. R., Glidewell S. M., Masson D., Williamson B. (2000) Comparative biology of the pollination mechanisms in Acmopyle pancheri and Phyllocladus hypophyllus (Podocarpaceae s.l.) and their taxonomic significance. Ann. Bot. n.s. 86: 149-158.
51. Molloy B. P. J. (1995) Manoao (Podocarpaceae), a new monotypic conifer genus endemic to New Zealand. New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 183-201.
52. Nickrent D. L. (2000) Is Parasitaxus parasitic? SIUC/College of Science/The Parasitic Plant Connection: http://www.science.siu.edu/.parasitic-plants/parasitaxus.html
53. Nickrent D. L. (2001) Chapter 3, Parasitic Plants of the World. In: López-Sáez J. A., Catalán P., Sáez L. (eds.) Guide to the Parasitic Plants of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Mundi-Prensa Libros, S. A., Madrid (also see http://www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/Chapter3.html).
54. Nickrent D. L., Starr E. M. (1994) High-rates of nucleotide substitution in nuclear small-subunit (18S) rDNA from holoparasitic flowering plants. J. Molec. Evol. 39(1): 62-70.
55. Page C. N. (1990) Podocarpaceae. In: Kubitzki K. (ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants. Springer, Berlin, vol. 1, pp. 332-346.
56. Pilger R. (1903) Taxaceae. In: Engler A. (ed.) Das Pflanzenreich 18 (IV. 5). Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.
57. Posada D., Crandall K. A. (1998) ModelTest: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14: 817-818.
58. Quinn C. J. (1982) Taxonomy of Dacrydium Sol. ex Lamb. emend. de Laub. (Podocarpaceae). Austral. J. Bot. 30: 311-320.
59. Raunkiær C. (1934) The use of leaf size in biological plant geography. In: Raunkiær C. The life forms of plants and statistical plant geography. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 368-378.
60. Raven P. (1979) Plate tectonics and southern hemisphere biogeography. In: Larsen K., Holm-Nielsen L. B. (eds.) Tropical botany. Academic Press, London, pp. 3-24.
61. Schneckenburger S. (1999) Einige bemerkenswerte Coniferen Neukaledoniens. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 84: 5-21.
62. Stockey R. A., Frevel B. J. (1997) Cuticle morphology of Prumnopitys Philippi (Podocarpaceae). Int. J. Plant Sci. 158: 198-221.
63. Stockey R. A., Ko H. (1990) Cuticle micromorphology of Dacrydium (Podocarpaceae) from New Caledonia. Bot. Gaz. 151: 138-149.
64. Stockey R. A., Ko H., Woltz P. (1992) Cuticle micromorphology of Falcatifolium de Laubenfels (Podocarpaceae). Int. J. Plant Sci. 153: 589-601.
65. Stockey R. A., Ko H., Woltz P. (1995) Cuticle micromorphology of Parasitaxus de Laubenfels (Podocarpaceae). Int. J. Plant Sci. 156: 723-730.
66. Swofford D. L. (2001) PAUP*. Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (* and other methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates Sunderland, Massachusetts.
67. Taberlet P., Gielly L., Pautou G., Bouvet J. (1991) Universal primers for amplification of three non-coding regions of chloroplast DNA. Plant Mol. Biol. 17: 1105-1109.
68. Tomlinson P. B., Braggins J. E., Rattenbury J. A. (1997) Contrasted pollen capture mechanisms in Phyllocladaceae and certain Podocarpaceae (Coniferales). Amer. J. Bot. 84: 214-223.
69. Watt A. (1994) Two interesting conifers from New Caledonia. Int. Dendrol. Soc. Yearb. pp. 64-68.
70. Weising K., Nybom H., Wolff K., Meyer W. (1995) Methodology in DNA fingerprinting in plants and fungi. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, chapter 4: 53.
71. Wells P. M., Hill R. S. (1989) Leaf morphology of the imbricate-leaved Podocarpaceae. Austral. Syst. Bot. 2: 369-386.
72. White T. J., Burns T., Lee S., Taylor J. (1990) Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics. In: Innis M. A., Gelfand D. H., Sninsky J. J., White T. J. (eds.) PCR protocols. Academic Press, London, pp. 315-322.
73. Wolfe A. D., dePamphilis C. W. (1997) Alternate paths of evolution for the photosynthetic gene rbcL in four nonphotosynthetic species of Orobanche. Plant Mol. Biol. 33: 965-977.
74. Wolfe A. D., dePamphilis C. W. (1998) The effect of relaxed functional constraints on the photosynthetic gene rbcL in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants. Molec. Biol. Evol. 15: 1243-1258.
75. Woltz P., Stockey R. A., Gondran M., Cherrier J.-F. (1995) Interspecific parasitism in the Gymnosperms: unpublished data on two endemic New Caledonian Podocarpaceae using scanning electron microscopy. Acta Bot. Gallica 141: 731-746.