Phylogeny and divergence of basal angiosperms inferred from<Emphasis Type="Italic"> APETALA3</Emphasis>- and<Emphasis Type="Italic"> PISTILLATA</Emphasis>-like MADS-box genes |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Seishiro?AokiEmail author Koichi?Uehara Masao?Imafuku Mitsuyasu?Hasebe Motomi?Ito |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan;(2) Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan;(3) Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;(4) National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan;(5) Department of Molecular Biomechanics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan |
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Abstract: | The B-class MADS-box genes composed of APETALA3 (AP3) and PISTILLATA (PI) lineages play an important role in petal and stamen identity in previously studied flowering plants. We investigated the diversification of the AP3-like and PI-like MADS-box genes of eight species in five basal angiosperm families: Amborella trichopoda (Amborellaceae); Brasenia schreberi and Cabomba caroliniana (Cabombaceae); Euryale ferox, Nuphar japonicum, and Nymphaea tetragona (Nymphaeaceae); Illicium anisatum (Illiciaceae); and Kadsura japonica (Schisandraceae). Sequence analysis showed that a four amino acid deletion in the K domain, which was found in all previously reported angiosperm PI genes, exists in a PI homologue of Schisandraceae, but not in six PI homologues of the Amborellaceae, Cabombaceae, and Nymphaeaceae, suggesting that the Amborellaceae, Cabombaceae, and Nymphaeaceae are basalmost lineages in angiosperms. The results of molecular phylogenetic analyses were not inconsistent with this hypothesis. The AP3 and PI homologues from Amborella share a sequence of five amino acids in the 5 region of exon 7. Using the linearized tree and likelihood methods, the divergence time between the AP3 and PI lineages was estimated as somewhere between immediately after to several tens of millions of years after the split between angiosperms and extant gymnosperms. Estimates of the age of the most recent common ancestor of all extant angiosperms range from ~140–210 Ma, depending on the trees used and assumptions made. |
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Keywords: | Amborella Floral homeotic genes Illicium Kadsura MADS Nymphaeales |
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