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Meeting in Liguria : hybridisation between Apennine endemic Euphorbia barrelieri and western Mediterranean E. nicaeensis led to the allopolyploid origin of E. ligustica
ID Skubic, Maruša (Author), ID Záveská, Eliška (Author), ID Frajman, Božo (Author)

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Abstract
The Mediterranean Basin is renowned for its extremely rich biota and is considered as one of the 25 Global Biodiversity Hotspots, but its diversity is not homogeneously distributed. Outstanding in the number of (endemic) species are the Ligurian Alps (Italy). At the foot of the Ligurian Alps, little above the Mediterranean Sea, a disjunct occurrence of Italian endemic Euphorbia barrelieri was reported. Using an array of integrative methods ranging from cytogenetic (chromosome number and relative genome size estimation), over phylogenetic approaches (plastid, ITS and RAD sequencing) to multivariate morphometrics we disentangled the origin of these populations that were shown to be tetraploid. We performed phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear ITS and plastid regions of a broad taxonomic sampling of Euphorbia sect. Pithyusa to identify possible species involved in the origin of the tetraploid populations and then applied various analyses of RADseq data to identify the putative parental species. Our results have shown that the Ligurian populations of E. barrelieri are of allotetraploid origin that involved E. barrelieri and western Mediterranean E. nicaeensis as parental species. We thus describe a new species, E. ligustica, and hypothesise that its adaptation to similar environments in which E. barrelieri occurs, triggered development of similar morphology, whereas its genetic composition appears to be closer to that of E. nicaeensis. Our study emphasises the importance of polyploidisation for plant diversification, highlights the value of the Ligurian Alps as a hotspot of biodiversity and endemism and underlines the importance of integrative taxonomic approaches in uncovering cryptic diversity.

Language:English
Keywords:integrative taxonomy, Ligurian Alps, morphometrics, new species, phylogenetics, polyploidy, RAD sequencing
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:BF - Biotechnical Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2023
Number of pages:15 str.
Numbering:art. no. ǂ107805, Vol. 185
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-146423 This link opens in a new window
UDC:58
ISSN on article:1055-7903
DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107805 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:154027267 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:31.05.2023
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Title:Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Shortened title:Mol. phylogenet. evol.
Publisher:Academic Press
ISSN:1055-7903
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License:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Keywords:taksonomija, Ligurske alpe, morfometrija, nove vrste, filogenetika, poliploidija, sekvenciranje

Projects

Funder:EC - European Commission
Funding programme:Synthesis Grant
Project number:ES-TAF- 6700

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:University of Innsbruck, Italy-centre, Innsbruck, Republic of Austria

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Project number:RVO 67985939

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