Testing species hypotheses in the mangrove genus Rhizophora from the Western hemisphere and South Pacific islands

dc.contributor.authorMori, Gustavo Maruyama [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorMadeira, André Guilherme [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorCruz, Mariana Vargas
dc.contributor.authorTsuda, Yoshiaki
dc.contributor.authorTakayama, Koji
dc.contributor.authorMatsuki, Yu
dc.contributor.authorSuyama, Yoshihisa
dc.contributor.authorIwasaki, Takaya
dc.contributor.authorde Souza, Anete Pereira
dc.contributor.authorZucchi, Maria Imaculada
dc.contributor.authorKajita, Tadashi
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Tsukuba
dc.contributor.institutionKyoto University
dc.contributor.institutionTohoku University
dc.contributor.institutionKanagawa University
dc.contributor.institutionAgência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of the Ryukyus
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-12T01:35:26Z
dc.date.available2020-12-12T01:35:26Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe determination of species limits is key to biology, with practical implications for conservation policy makers, lawyers and stakeholders. However, naming species may be a difficult task as interspecific hybridization blurs species boundaries. Natural interspecific gene flow has been reported for seven distinct mangrove genera, including the iconic genus Rhizophora. Species limits within this genus have long been debated because of morphological similarity, natural variability in diagnostic traits, disjunct geographic distribution, and recent molecular data have reignited this issue. Here, we used a phylogeographical approach based on genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data to test species hypotheses of R. mangle, R. racemosa and R. X harrisonii from the Atlantic East Pacific (AEP) biogeographic region and South Pacific islands. Genetic structure patterns and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) analyses revealed that taxonomic identification based only on morphological traits could not predict genetic clustering alone nor the phylogenetic relationships among groups. The American continent plays an important role as a barrier to gene flow within the genus such that trees identified morphologically as R. racemosa from the Atlantic basin are more genetically similar to R. mangle from the same basin than to R. racemosa trees from the Pacific coast. Additionally, our findings supported previous studies that showed that R. samoensis is indistinguishable from R. mangle populations from the Pacific basin. Moreover, we provide novel evidence that R. X harrisonii is likely composed by two independently originated and separately maintained evolutionary lineages in both sides of the American continent. Our findings provide novel evidence of taxonomic inconsistency of current morphology-based species designations in Western hemisphere and South Pacific islands Rhizophora species.en
dc.description.affiliationSão Paulo State University (Unesp) Institute of Biosciences
dc.description.affiliationCentro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética Universidade Estadual de Campinas
dc.description.affiliationSugadaira Research Station Mountain Science Center University of Tsukuba
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Botany Kyoto University
dc.description.affiliationKawatabi Field Science Center Graduate School of Agricultural Science Tohoku University
dc.description.affiliationFaculty of Science Kanagawa University
dc.description.affiliationDepartamento de Biologia Vegetal Universidade Estadual de Campinas
dc.description.affiliationAgência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios
dc.description.affiliationIriomote Station Tropical Biosphere Research Center University of the Ryukyus
dc.description.affiliationUnespSão Paulo State University (Unesp) Institute of Biosciences
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshipJapan Society for the Promotion of Science
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 13/08086-1
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 13/26793-7
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 14/22821-9
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 17/12920-8
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 18/02655-8
dc.description.sponsorshipIdJapan Society for the Promotion of Science: 25290080
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 448286/2014-9
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106948
dc.identifier.citationEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106948
dc.identifier.issn0272-7714
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85089597792
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/199275
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectHybrids
dc.subjectMIG-seq
dc.subjectPhylogeography
dc.subjectRhizophoraceae
dc.titleTesting species hypotheses in the mangrove genus Rhizophora from the Western hemisphere and South Pacific islandsen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5951-8531[2]

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