title: Phylogenetic relationships and genome divergence among the AA- genome species of the genus Oryza as revealed by 53 nuclear genes and 16 intergenic regions.
abstract: Rapid radiations have long been regarded as the most challenging issue for elucidating poorly resolved phylogenies in evolutionary biology. The eight diploid AA- genome species in the genus Oryza represent a typical example of a closely spaced series of recent speciation events in plants. However, questions regarding when and how they diversified have long been an issue of extensive interest but remain a mystery. Here, a data set comprising >60 kb of 53 singleton fragments and 16 intergenic regions is used to perform phylogenomic analyses of all eight AA- genome species plus four diploid Oryza species with BB-, CC-, EE- and GG- genomes. We fully reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of AA- genome species with confidence. Oryza meridionalis, native to Australia, is found to be the earliest divergent lineage around 2.93 mya, whereas O. punctata, a BB- genome species, serves as the best outgroup to distinguish their phylogenetic relationships. They separated from O. punctata approximately 9.11 mya during the Miocene epoch, and subsequently radiated to generate the entire AA- genome lineage diversity. The success in resolving the phylogeny of AA- genome species highlights the potential of phylogenomics to determine their divergence and evolutionary histories.
authors.affiliation: Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China. Electronic address: zhuting@mail.kib.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ping-Zhen
authors.initials: PZ
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jiang-Peng
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Xin-Chun
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.forename: Li-Zhi
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000235:genetics*; D021901:DNA, Intergenic / Q000235:genetics*; D004171:Diploidy; D018745:Genome, Plant; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D021901:DNA, Intergenic
keywords: AA- genome; Evolutionary history; Genome divergence; Oryza; Phylogenomics; Rapid recent speciation