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Phylogenomics, molecular evolution, and estimated ages of lineages from the deep phylogeny of Poaceae

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The deeply diverging subfamilies of grasses: Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae, and Puelioideae, today inhabit tropical forest floors as sparsely distributed depauperate lineages. The BEP/PACMAD grasses, which make up the majority of the family, are the result of a more recent radiation. Species in the deeply diverging subfamilies were here investigated to better understand molecular evolutionary processes and ages of divergence. Complete chloroplast genomes (plastomes) of Pharus latifolius L., P. lappulaceus Aubl., and Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) Clayton were determined. Four plastome loci from seven species of the deep subfamilies were also sequenced. Phylogenetic and mutation analyses and divergence estimations were conducted on all sequences together with homologous sequences from other Poaceae. Mutation analyses surveyed insertion/deletion mutations across the plastomes, clarified a trend in the molecular evolution of the rpoC2 locus, and indicated unique pseudogenizations in the plastomes of Pharus and Puelia. Phylogenetic analyses largely confirmed earlier multi-gene phylogenies. Phylogenomic and divergence analyses produced estimated origins of the crown nodes of Anomochlooideae at 65–104 Ma, Pharoideae at 44–71 Ma, and Puelioideae at 62–96 Ma. The upper ends of our estimated ranges are in general agreement with previous estimates. However, the lower ends of our ranges are considerably older than previous estimates, reflecting the influence of the less commonly used oldest fossil calibration point. The deeply diverging subfamilies exhibited the accumulation of numerous substitution and indel mutations consistent with a long evolutionary history that predated the radiation of the BEP/PACMAD grasses. We hypothesize that relatively rapid warming and drying in Africa at 55–56.5 Ma may have acted as selective forces stimulating adaptive radiations of grasses from the African tropical forests into diverse habitats.

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We thank J. Triplett, Jacksonville State University, Alabama, for fresh specimens and the Missouri Botanical Garden for dried specimens. We also thank J. Chris Pires, Patrick Edger, and Dustin Mayfield for technical assistance. We thank three anonymous reviewers whose comments improved the paper. This work was supported in part by the Plant Molecular Biology Center and the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University as well as by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number (DEB-1120761) to MRD. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Jones, S.S., Burke, S.V. & Duvall, M.R. Phylogenomics, molecular evolution, and estimated ages of lineages from the deep phylogeny of Poaceae. Plant Syst Evol 300, 1421–1436 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-013-0971-y

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