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Data from: Reticulate evolution, ancient chloroplast haplotypes, and rapid radiation of the Australian plant genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae)

Cytonuclear discordance, commonly detected in phylogenetic studies, is often attributed to hybridisation and/or incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). New sequencing technologies and analytical approaches can provide new insights into the relative importance of these processes. Hybridisation has previously been reported in the Australian endemic plant genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Like many Australian genera, Adenanthos is of relatively ancient origin, and provides an opportunity to examine long-term evolutionary consequences of gene flow between lineages. Using a hybrid capture approach, we assembled densely sampled low-copy nuclear and plastid DNA sequences for Adenanthos, inferred its evolutionary history, and used a Bayesian posterior predictive approach and coalescent simulations to assess relative contributions of hybridisation and ILS to cytonuclear discordance. Our analyses indicate that strong incongruence detected between our plastid and nuclear phylogenies is not only the result of ILS, but also result from extensive ancient introgression as well as recent chloroplast capture and introgression between extant Adenanthos species. The deep reticulation was also detected from long-persisting chloroplast haplotypes shared between evolutionarily distant species. These haplotypes may have persisted for over 12 Ma in localised populations across southwest Western Australia, indicating that the region is not only an important area for old endemic lineages and accumulation of species, but is also characterized by persistence of high genetic diversity. Deep introgression in Adenanthos coincided with the rapid radiation of the genus during the Miocene, a time when many Australian temperate plant groups radiated in response to large-scale climatic change. This study suggests that ancient introgression may play an important role in the evolution of the Australian flora more broadly.

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Data from: Population structure and reticulate evolution of Saccharomyces eubayanus and its lager-brewing hybrids

Reticulate evolution can be a major driver of diversification into new niches, especially in disturbed habitats and at the edges of ranges. Industrial fermentation strains of yeast provide a window into these processes, but progress has been hampered by a limited understanding of the natural diversity and distribution of Saccharomyces species and populations. For example, lager beer is brewed with Saccharomyces pastorianus, an alloploid hybrid of S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus, a species only recently discovered in Patagonia, Argentina. Here we report that genetically diverse strains of S. eubayanus are readily isolated from Patagonia, demonstrating that the species is well established there. Analyses of multi-locus sequence data strongly suggest that there are two diverse and highly differentiated Patagonian populations. S. eubayanus alleles present among hybrid European brewing strains had strikingly low diversity, suggesting they were drawn from a small subpopulation that is closely related to one of the Patagonian populations. For the first time, we also report the rare isolation of S. eubayanus outside of Patagonia, in Wisconsin, USA. In contrast to the clear population differentiation in Patagonia, the North American strains represent a recent and possibly transient admixture of the two Patagonian populations. These complex and varied reticulation events are not adequately captured by conventional phylogenetic methods and required analyses of Bayesian concordance factors and phylogenetic networks to accurately summarize and interpret. These findings show how genetically diverse eukaryotic microbes can produce rare but economically important hybrids with low genetic diversity when they migrate from their natural ecological context.

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Data from: Conflicting phylogenomic signals reveal a pattern of reticulate evolution in a recent high-Andean diversification (Asteraceae: Astereae: Diplostephium)

High-throughput sequencing is helping biologists to overcome the difficulties of inferring the phylogenies of recently diverged taxa. The present study analyzes the phylogenetic signal of genomic regions with different inheritance patterns using genome skimming and ddRAD-seq in a species-rich Andean genus (Diplostephium) and its allies. We analyzed the complete nuclear ribosomal cistron, the complete chloroplast genome, a partial mitochondrial genome, and a nuclear-ddRAD matrix separately with phylogenetic methods. We applied several approaches to understand the causes of incongruence among datasets, including simulations and the detection of introgression using the D-statistic (ABBA-BABA test). We found significant incongruence among the nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial phylogenies. The strong signal of hybridization found by simulations and the D-statistic among genera and inside the main clades of Diplostephium indicate reticulate evolution as a main cause of phylogenetic incongruence. Our results add evidence for a major role of reticulate evolution in events of rapid diversification. Hybridization and introgression confound chloroplast and mitochondrial phylogenies in relation to the species tree as a result of the uniparental inheritance of these genomic regions. Practical implications regarding the prevalence of hybridization are discussed in relation to the phylogenetic method.

Fig. 6 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 6. Isolation by distance plot of core E. odorata complex samples (E. odorata, E. cajuputea, E. wimmerensis, E. walshii, E. yarriambiack, E. filiformis, E. polybractea and E. viridis from south-eastern Queensland). Geographic distances are kilometres between collection coordinates and genetic distances are uncorrelated-P distances.

Fig. 3 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 3. Plot of PCA analyses of SNPs generated using (a) ddRADseq and (b) DArTseq. Points are coloured by species consistent with Fig. 1, with shapes used to distinguish different major groups: the grey-box taxa (diamonds), mallee members of E. series Subbuxeales not in the E. odorata complex (squares), and the E. odorata complex (circles).

Fig. 5 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 5. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny generated using RAXML, excluding samples with strong evidence for hybridisation and introgression in the combined ddRADseq and DArTseq dataset. Support values on branches are those from the ML and MP analysis, with branches with greater than 80% bootstrapping support in both analyses thickened. Series are labelled as per Nicolle (2019).

Fig. 1 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 1. Distributions of the 12 species of the E. odorata complex, using taxonomic concepts employed a priori in this study. (a) E. viridis and species most commonly considered its closest relatives. (b) E. odorata, E. polybractea and species commonly considered close relatives of these. Distributions are coloured by species and open circles are used to highlight geographically restricted populations. Closed points indicate the collecting localities and seed provenances for samples used in this study. Black circles indicate major regions where members of the E. odorata complex occur as applied in text, which may differ from the actual geographic extent.

Fig. 4 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 4. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny generated using RAXML including all samples in the combined ddRADseq and DArTseq dataset. Support values on branches are those from the ML and MP analysis, with branches with greater than 80% bootstrapping support in both analyses thickened. Series are labelled as per Nicolle (2019).

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Phylogenomics of Fargesia and Yushania reveals a history of reticulate evolution

Reticulate evolution is a common and important driving force in angiosperm evolution. In this study, we analyzed the phylogenetic signals of genomic regions with different inheritance patterns to understand the evolutionary process of organisms using species‐rich Himalaya–Hengduan taxa of bamboos (Fargesia Franchet and Yushania Keng). We constructed phylogenetic trees using different sampling strategies and reconstruction methods based on genome skimming and double digest restriction‐site‐associated DNA sequencing data. We assessed the congruence of topologies generated from different datasets and employed several approaches to reveal the causes of phylogenetic incongruence, including the detection of hybridization and introgression using PhyloNetworks and the D‐ statistic test (ABBA‐BABA test). We found that, in the plastome‐based phylogeny, Fargesia bamboos can be clustered into three groups and Yushania was nested within one of them, which contradicts the nuclear–double digest restriction‐site‐associated DNA sequencing‐based phylogeny. Moreover, the genetic variation of chloroplast DNA is significantly correlated with geographical distribution. The strong signal of incomplete lineage sorting, hybridization, introgression, and cytoplasmic gene flow found among genera and species suggests that reticulate evolution is the main cause for the phylogenetic incongruence between nuclear and chloroplast datasets. Our results add evidence that genomes with different inheritance patterns can reveal distinct evolutionary histories of species and suggest that reticulate evolution is prevalent in rapidly diversifying groups.

Fig. 2 in A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata complex (E. section Adnataria series Subbuxeales): evidence for extensive interspecific gene flow and reticulate evolution

Fig. 2. Neighbour-net networks of E. odorata complex taxa and co-occurring members of E. section Adnataria created in Splitstree V.4 using uncorrelated-P distances of SNPs generated by A. ddRADseq and B. DArTseq. Tips are coloured by species, with shapes used to distinguish different major groups: E. series Hetereophloiae (inverse triangles), E. series Melliodorae (hexagons), E. series Buxeales (triangles), the grey-box taxa (diamonds), mallee members of E. series Subbuxeales not in the E. odorata complex (squares), and the E. odorata complex (circles) coloured consistent with Fig. 1.

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Discordance in a South African Memecylon clade (Melastomataceae): Evidence for reticulate evolution

Premise of research. Evergreen forests in eastern South Africa have high biodiversity but are limited in extent and have a highly fragmented distribution. Populations of forest plants are thus geographically isolated, and fine-scale evolutionary studies of these lineages might yield important insights into the history and assembly of the forests themselves. Despite their morphological diversity, a prior study showed that three South African Memecylon taxa in Melastomataceae (M. natalense, M. bachmannii, and M. australissimum) had almost identical nuclear ribosomal spacer sequences. Our study investigates phylogenetic relationships within this clade using multiple samples collected across populations and a next-generation phylogenomic approach. Methodology. We used 87 low-copy nuclear (LCN) loci to examine relationships among these taxa using both concatenated and coalescent methods. We further used LCN loci to estimate phylogenetic networks and SNPs derived from LCN genes for STRUCTURE analysis of South African Memecylon populations. Finally, we employed two approaches (flow cytometry and SNPs) to infer the ploidy levels of these three taxa. Pivotal results. Our investigations showed discordance among gene trees and the species tree, and low statistical support for relationships indicating that species monophyly cannot be recovered from this phylogenomic analysis. Phylogenetic networks and population structures showed that the South African Memecylon clade may be affected by gene flow and reticulate evolution. Flow cytometry and SNP-based estimations provided evidence for polyploidy within this group. Conclusions. We found no evidence of monophyly for species within the South African Memecylon clade, which we infer to be the consequence of reticulation and recent and rapid evolution. More cytological studies and genomic data are needed to elucidate the evolutionary history of this group. Additionally, our study identifies priority populations within the South African Memecylon clade for conservation.

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Data from: Population structure and reticulate evolution of Saccharomyces eubayanus and its lager-brewing hybrids

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Data from: Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in Xiphophorus fishes

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Discordance in a South African Memecylon clade (Melastomataceae): Evidence for reticulate evolution

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Data from: Conflicting phylogenomic signals reveal a pattern of reticulate evolution in a recent high-Andean diversification (Asteraceae: Astereae: Diplostephium)

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Data from: Reticulate evolution in Elatine L. (Elatinaceae), a predominantly autogamous genus of aquatic plants

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Phylogenomics of Fargesia and Yushania reveals a history of reticulate evolution

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