龙胆族(龙胆科)分类与进化研究进展

龙胆是著名的高山植物,广布世界温带地区,不仅可作药用,也可用于园艺观赏。龙胆科分为6个族,其中龙胆族占龙胆科物种数的一半以上;龙胆族包括龙胆亚族和獐牙菜亚族,分类与进化方面的相关研究众多。随着分子生物学在龙胆族研究中的应用,近些年对多个类群进行了研究并发表了多个新属和新种。该文从属间和属内两个层次梳理了龙胆族近年来在分类和进化研究中的最新进展,总结了新发表的类群。并分析了现存的问题,重点强调在今后的研究中用特别注意以下几点:(1)形态性状的准确掌握对龙胆族的研究至关重要;(2)发表新类群应当谨慎;(3)单拷贝核基因有助于解析龙胆族复杂的系统发育关系;(4)关注杂交和多倍化等在龙胆族进化中的作用。     

栽培稻与普遍野生稻两个重要分类性状花药长度和柱头外露率的QTL分析

用江西东乡普通野生稻（简称东乡普野）和桂朝２号的１１５株的ＢＣ１群体,构成了１张长度为１４１８．２ｃＭ．包含１２０个ＲＦＬＰ标记的遗传图谱,该图谱除第１染色体短臂上的标记的顺序与日本水稻基因组计划发表的图谱不同外,其他染色体上相对应的标记的顺序及标记之间的遗传距离基本一致。对控制花药长度和柱头外露率这两个栽培稻和野生稻的重要分类性状的ＱＴＬ分析结果表明,控制花药长度的２个ＱＴＬｓ分别位于第２染色体Ｃ４２４～Ｇ３９和第９染色体Ｃ２８０７～Ｃ１２６３间;控制柱头外露率的２个ＱＴＬｓ分别位于第５染色体Ｒ２２８９～Ｒ１５５３间和第８染色体Ｇ１１４９～Ｒ１９６３间。这两个重要分类性状的ＱＴＬｓ定位,为进一步研究野生稻进化到栽培稻的分子进化机理提供了有益的信息。     

松科系统学研究（I）

检以科的系统发育研究历来已久,但由于性状进货的不同步性和属间进化缺少中间环节,致使科的分类系统和各属之间的演化关系至今未得到令人满意的解决。本文在钻研已有文献的基础上,筛选出松科属间综合分类性状３６个,有序进化性状２０个,借助计算机,以属为分类单位,进行表征分析研究确定松科分类系统,结果将松科分为三个亚科：松亚科Ｓｕｂｆａｍ．Ｐｉｎｏｉｄｅａｅ：仅Ｐｉｎｕｓ Ｌｉｎｎ;落叶松亚科Ｓｕｂｆａｍ．Ｌａ     

野牡丹科植物与蜂类某些类群的进化关系初探

本文提出熊蜂、胡蜂等采集野牡丹科植物花粉的现象,进而探讨了野牡丹科植物与熊蜂、胡蜂……等之间的共同进化关系,并指出野牡丹科植物与熊蜂等类群,在系统进化中有平行进化的关系。     

野牡丹科植物与蜂类某些类群的进化关系初探

本文提出熊蜂、胡蜂等采集野牡丹科植物花粉的现象,进而探讨了野牡丹科植物与熊蜂、胡蜂……等之间的共同进化关系,并指出野牡丹科植物与熊蜂等类群,在系统进化中有平行进化的关系。     

新疆维吾尔族,哈萨克族人群HLA—DQA1,—DQB1两基因座多态性的研究？…

应用ＰＣＲ－ＲＦＬＰ基因分型技术,首次对我国新疆地区维吾尔族和哈萨克族２个少数民族群体的ＨＬＡ－ＤＱＡ１,－ＤＱＢ１两个基因座的多态性进行了研究,结果显示,在ＤＱＡ１８个等位基因中,维族和哈族表现为ＤＱＡ１＊０３０１最常见,最少见的ＤＱＡ１等位基因,在维族中的ＤＱＡ１＊０４０１和０６０１,而在哈族中ＤＱＡ１＊０６０１;在ＤＱＢ１１６个等位基因中,ＤＱＢ１＊０２０１和＊０３０１在维族和哈族中均表现为     

羊蹄甲属的系统与生物地理学：1．厚盘组的分支分析

羊蹄甲属厚盘组作为一个分类实体包含有约１８个种,本组植物主要分布于中国南部及中南半岛等地,其中很多种类在其分布区内地理替代现象相当明显。对此组的分支系统学研究,一方面有助于对本组种类系统进化关系的理解,另一方面又为对热带亚热带亚洲大陆各区系之间关系。的理解提供帮助,为本地区的分支生物地理学研究提供材料．本文用３０个形态及叶脉脉序性状对厚盘组进行了分支分析．云南羊蹄甲被选作外类群,内类。群包括龙须藤亚组及攀援羊蹄甲亚组的所有１８个种。分析产生了８个最简约的分支图。分析还表明攀援羊蹄甲单独作为一个亚组是不可取的,厚盘组的分类及生物地理学需要进一步的研究．     

中国藁本属修订

藁本属Ligusticum L.属伞形科Umbelliferae芹亚科Apioideae Drude阿米芹族Ammineae Koch。它在阿米芹族中,是一个较进化的类群,是介于阿米芹族与前胡族Peucedaneae DC．之间的一个过渡类型。藁本属全世界60余种。我国现知有34种,占该属种数的二分之一,其中28种及2个栽培变种为我国所特有。本文比较分析藁本属的形态学性状和孢粉学性状,以小总苞片及其相关特征作为该属次级划分的主要依据,将藁本属分为两个类群,并对该属的种类作了增补,对一些种的名称、分布作了补充修订。文中还记载了4个新种。喜马拉雅藁本L．elatum(Edgew.)C.B．Clarke和开展藁本L. thomsonii C. B. Clarke var．evolutior C. B．Clarke,系我国首次记录。     

深红酵母的化学数值分类学研究

对２９株深红酵母（Ｒｈｏｄｏｔｏｒｕｌａｒｕｂｒａ）的裂解气相色谱（ＰｙＧＣ）数据分别采用三种数值分析方法进行化学数值分类学研究,结果显示,不管是聚类分析,主分量分析还是Ｑ型因子分析,均能得到极为相似的分类结果,其中Ｑ型因子分析效果最佳,通过数值分类学研究,２９株深红酵母被划分成不同的四群,其中ＮＫＲ１１１不能与上述四群聚类,作者建议将该菌株从Ｒｈ．ｒｕｂｒａ中分出,仍保留Ｒｈ．ｐｉｌｉｍａｎａｅ     

湖北樟属数量化学分类研究

本文利用湖北樟属植物13号精油的气相色谱／质谱／电子计算机联用分析的结果,从 已鉴定出的108个化学成分中,筛选出30个主要成分,综合各种植物的17个主要形态特征,进行数量分类研究。数学分析结果揭示了樟属各种性状变化的规律性,尤其是形态特征 与化学成分之间的相关性。乙酸龙脑酯、反式-甲基异丁香酚和芳樟醇等重要香精原料的含 量,与某些形态特征的变化密切相关,罗勒烯可能是樟属分组的特征性成分。本文还在聚类 分析的基础上,进一步探讨了分类群的划分,并根据精油成分在不同种和同种不同类型中的 分布及含量,参照各分类群之间的相关系数,对其演化关系作出了推论。湖北樟属植物可能起源于我国西南的黄樟樟脑型,而芳樟和黄樟芳樟醇型则是最进化的类群。     

海菜花属的分支学研究

本文选取了与海菜花属系统发育有重要关系的19个性状,采用分支分析方法,研究了代表中国海菜花属全部已知分类群的18个居群的系统发育关系;根据简约性原则,构建了18个居群的分支图。结果表明,18个居群可划分为4类,它们分别对应于现知的4个分类学种,而与数值分类学研究中的Q分析结果基本一致;在分类群的划分上,分支分析与Q分析一样有效,并能反映系统发育关系。本文最后对海菜花属的起源和演化作了探索性推测,认为本属可能最迟在白垩纪末起源于冈瓦纳古陆的热带湖沼地区,此后分化成沉水叶多花支、沉水叶单花支和浮水叶单花支繁衍演化。     

Phylogenetic systematics of the day geckos, genus, Rhoptropus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), of south-western Africa

The genus Rhoptropus consists of six species of diurnal, chiefly rupicolous, geckos that are endemic to the arid and semi-arid zones of Namibia and southern Angola. Sixteen skeletal and scalation characters and six allozyme characters analysed cladistically yield a single most parsimonious pattern of relationships: (( R. afer, R. bradfieldi ) ( R. taeniostictus (R. boultoni (R. barnardi, R. biporosus )))). Support for the placement of R. taeniostictus is tenuous because of missing allozyme data, but the remainder of the topology, especially the basal dichotomy, is well supported. Morphological and allozyme data are congruent and a phenetic analysis of genetic distances among the taxa is consistent with the phylogeny. The diversification of the genus probably took place in the Mid- to Late Tertiary and both basal and distal cladogenic events may be related to the evolution of the Namib Desert and movement of the Namib sands. Rates of evolution among the lineages of Rhoptropus appear to be unequal and R. afer , a species largely restricted to horizontal sheet rock habitats, has accumulated a large number of autapomorphic traits.     

繁缕和无瓣繁缕六个居群的数值分析

对繁缕（Stellaria media）和无瓣繁缕（S.apetala）的6个居群的57个性状进行Q－聚类和R－聚类的研究。结果表明：（1）Q－聚类中,用一条结合线,可以把繁缕的4个居群聚为一类,无瓣繁缕的2个居群聚为一类。这一结果支持肥繁缕和无瓣繁缕划分为两个物种;（2）R－聚类中,发现了呈现完全正相关、极大正相关和极大负相关的性状,并根据R－聚类的结果,运用一条适当的结合线,把繁缕和无瓣繁缕的57个性状划为5个类群,并分析了各性状的分类学意义。     

THE HOLY GRAIL OF THE PERFECT CHARACTER: THE CLADISTIC TREATMENT OF MORPHOMETRIC DATA

Abstract— Data scored for cladistic analyses may be quantitative or qualitative, continuous or discrete, and show overlapping or non-overlapping values between taxa. Quantitative and qualitative are modes of expression of data, while continuous or discrete refer to properties of the set of numbers that express the data; both these pairs of terms have been confused with overlapping and non-overlapping. The degree of overlap of values between taxa is often used to filter characters in cladistic analyses: if a minimum amount of overlap is exceeded, or a minimum amount of disjunction not reached, characters are rejected as "not cladistic". However, this rests on a confusion between features of taxa and features of individual organisms (attributes). Cladistic characters are features of taxa, and comprise frequency distributions of attribute values over individuals of a taxon. Cladistic characters logically cannot overlap, although taxa may have overlapping attribute values. Thus, a priori rejection of characters that have overlapping attribute values is non-sensical. Such data may still be rejected from consideration for cladistic analysis if it could be demonstrated that they contain little recoverable phylogenetic signal. Few published analyses have empirically tested this. An analysis of overlapping morphometric data from three series of Banksia suggests that, at least in these cases, they map phylogeny almost as accurately as more conventional, qualitative morphological data. While more such tests are required, morphometric data should not be rejected a priori from cladistic analyses.     

JOINED AT THE HIP: LINKED CHARACTERS AND THE PROBLEM OF MISSING DATA IN STUDIES OF DISPARITY

Paleontological investigations into morphological diversity, or disparity, are often confronted with large amounts of missing data. We illustrate how missing discrete data affect disparity using a novel simulation for removing data based on parameters from published datasets that contain both extinct and extant taxa. We develop an algorithm that assesses the distribution of missing characters in extinct taxa, and simulates data loss by applying that distribution to extant taxa. We term this technique “linkage.” We compare differences in disparity metrics and ordination spaces produced by linkage and random character removal. When we incorporated linkage among characters, disparity metrics declined and ordination spaces shrank at a slower rate with increasing missing data, indicating that correlations among characters govern the sensitivity of disparity analysis. We also present and test a new disparity method that uses the linkage algorithm to correct for the bias caused by missing data. We equalized proportions of missing data among time bins before calculating disparity, and found that estimates of disparity changed when missing data were taken into account. By removing the bias of missing data, we can gain new insights into the morphological evolution of organisms and highlight the detrimental effects of missing data on disparity analysis.     

荷花品种的数量分类研究

本文运用电子计算机进行了荷花品种的数量分类研究。结果表明: 1.Q型聚类分析有助于揭示品种间的亲缘关系。2.R型聚类分析说明了性状间的生物学距离。3.主成分分析初步反映了各性状所占的信息比例。     

湖北罗田县板栗品种的初步研究

本文对罗田县某些板栗品种的植物学特征、物候期(开花期和果实成熟期)、过氧化物酶同工酶、Q型聚类分析进行了初步研究。结果表明,①各品种的总苞、坚果形态特征和果实成熟期等性状稳定而且相互间差异比较明显,可作为板栗品种分类的依据;②品种间过氧化物酶同工酶的差异表现在酶带数目和酶带活性强弱上;③聚类分析所揭示的品种间的相互关系,与品种间植物形态特征比较、同工酶分析结果相一致。     

Clade stability and the addition of data: A case study from erigonine spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)

This study presents a new phylogeny of erigonine spiders with emphasis on genera from the Neotropics. Thirty‐nine exemplar taxa representing mostly Neotropical genera were added to a global sample of 31 erigonine and 12 outgroup exemplar taxa analyzed in a previous study. These 82 taxa were coded for 176 (172 informative) mostly morphological characters. Eighty‐one characters were identical to or modified from the 73 (67 informative) characters included in a previous study; the remaining 95 characters are new. The complete data set includes 70 erigonine exemplars representing 65 genera, seven nonerigonine linyphiid exemplars, and five exemplars representing four araneoid families in the outgroup. Cladistic analysis resulted in a single most parsimonious tree (L =904, CI = 0.23, RI = 0.58; uninformative characters excluded: L = 900, CI = 0.23). This paper explores the implications of the new topology for the evolution of several characters of interest in erigonine evolution. The phylogeny implies that the desmitracheate condition is a synapomorphy of erigonines, with a reversal to the haplotracheate condition in one large clade within Erigoninae. We infer that the loss of the paracymbium in Neotropical erigonines occurred twice and may have progressed by different evolutionary pathways. Our phylogeny differs markedly from the previous cladistic hypothesis of erigonine relationships. We investigate how the addition of characters and taxa (alone and together) have altered the earlier hypothesis of erigonine phylogeny. We conclude that topological changes from the previous study to the current one are largely the result of adding and modifying characters, not adding taxa. Continuous Jackknife Function (CJF) analysis predicts that the inclusion of additional character data will continue to imply changes in the relationships among taxa in our analysis.     

A NEW PTEROSAUR FROM THE LIAONING PROVINCE OF CHINA, THE PHYLOGENY OF THE PTERODACTYLOIDEA, AND CONVERGENCE IN THEIR CERVICAL VERTEBRAE

Abstract:  The largest known flying organisms are the azhdarchid pterosaurs, a pterodactyloid clade previously diagnosed by the characters of their extremely elongate middle-series cervical vertebrae. The named species of the Azhdarchidae are from the Late Cretaceous. However, isolated mid-cervical vertebrae with similar dimensions and characters have been referred to this group that date back to the Late Jurassic, implying an almost 60 million year gap in the fossil record of this group and an unrecorded radiation in the Jurassic of all the major clades of the Pterodactyloidea. A new pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province of China, Elanodactylus prolatus gen. et sp. nov., is described with mid-cervical vertebrae that bear these azhdarchid characters but has other postcranial material that are distinct from the members of this group. Phylogenetic analysis of the new species and the Pterodactyloidea places it with the Late Jurassic vertebrae in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Ctenochasmatidae and reveals that the characters of the elongate azhdarchid vertebrae appeared independently in both groups. These results are realized though the large taxon sampling in the analysis demonstrating that the homoplastic character states present in these two taxa were acquired in a different order in their respective lineages. Some of these homoplastic characters were previously thought to appear once in the history of pterosaurs and may be correlated to the extension of the neck regions in both groups. Because the homoplastic character states in the Azhdarchidae and Ctenochasmatidae are limited to the mid-cervical vertebrae, these states are termed convergent based on a definition of the term in a phylogenetic context. A number of novel results from the analysis presented produce a reorganization in the different species and taxa of the Pterodactyloidea.     

Reconstructing the evolution of complex bird song in the oropendolas

The elaborate songs of songbirds are frequent models for investigating the evolution of animal signals. However, few previous studies have attempted to reconstruct historical changes in song evolution using a phylogenetic comparative approach. In particular, no comparative studies of bird song have used a large number of vocal characters and a well-supported, independently derived phylogeny. We identified 32 features in the complex vocal displays of male oropendolas (genera Psarocolius, Gymnostinops, and Ocyalus) that are relatively invariant within taxa and mapped these characters onto a robust molecular phylogeny of the group. Our analysis revealed that many aspects of oropendola song are surprisingly evolutionarily conservative and thus are potentially useful characters for reconstructing historical patterns. Of the characters that varied among taxa, nearly two thirds (19 of 29) showed no evidence of evolutionary convergence or reversal when mapped onto the tree, which was reflected in a high overall consistency index (CI = 0.78) and retention index (RI = 0.88). Some reconstructed patterns provided evidence of selection on these signals. For example, rapid divergence of the songs of the Montezuma oropendola, Gymnostinops montezuma, from those of closely related taxa suggests the recent influence of strong sexual selection. In general, our results provide insights into the mode of vocal evolution in songbirds and suggest that complex vocalizations can provide information about phylogeny. Based on this evidence, we use song characters to estimate the phylogenetic affinities of three oropendola taxa for which molecular data are not yet available.