TY - JOUR
T1 - A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses
AU - Janssens, Steven B.
AU - Couvreur, Thomas L.P.
AU - Mertens, Arne
AU - Dauby, Gilles
AU - Dagallier, Leo Paul M.J.
AU - Abeele, Samuel Vanden
AU - Vandelook, Filip
AU - Mascarello, Maurizio
AU - Beeckman, Hans
AU - Sosef, Marc
AU - Droissart, Vincent
AU - van der Bank, Michelle
AU - Maurin, Olivier
AU - Hawthorne, William
AU - Marshall, Cicely
AU - Réjou-Méchain, Maxime
AU - Beina, Denis
AU - Baya, Fidele
AU - Merckx, Vincent
AU - Verstraete, Brecht
AU - Hardy, Olivier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of view, there are far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed a large-scale dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th of all angiosperm species, based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK (incl. trnK) and rbcL. Novel sequences were generated for several species, while the rest of the data were mined from GenBank. The resulting tree was dated using 56 angiosperm fossils as calibration points. The resulting megaphylogeny is one of the largest dated phylogenetic tree of angiosperms yet, consisting of 36,101 sampled species, representing 8,399 genera, 426 families and all orders. This novel framework will be useful for investigating different broad scale research questions in ecological and evolutionary biology.
AB - Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of view, there are far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed a large-scale dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th of all angiosperm species, based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK (incl. trnK) and rbcL. Novel sequences were generated for several species, while the rest of the data were mined from GenBank. The resulting tree was dated using 56 angiosperm fossils as calibration points. The resulting megaphylogeny is one of the largest dated phylogenetic tree of angiosperms yet, consisting of 36,101 sampled species, representing 8,399 genera, 426 families and all orders. This novel framework will be useful for investigating different broad scale research questions in ecological and evolutionary biology.
KW - Angiosperms
KW - Ecology
KW - Evolution
KW - Large-scale dating analyses
KW - Phylogeny
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084219138&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/BDJ.8.E39677
DO - 10.3897/BDJ.8.E39677
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084219138
SN - 1314-2836
VL - 8
JO - Biodiversity Data Journal
JF - Biodiversity Data Journal
M1 - e39677
ER -