Phylogeography of an alpine plant Ligularia vellerea （Asteraceae） in the Hengduan Mountains  

作　　者：Hi-Yun YANG Ting-Shuang YI Yue-Zhi PAN Xun GONG 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming 650201,China [2]Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography,Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center,Germplasm Bank of Wtld Species,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Ktmming 650201,China

出　　处：《Journal of Systematics and Evolution》2012年第4期316-324,共9页植物分类学报（英文版）

摘　　要：The Hengduan Mountains region is considered to be an important reservoir and a differentiation center for temperate and alpine plants during the Cenozoic. To reveal the effects of extreme topography and climate on an organism＇s population genetic structure in this region, a phylogeographic study has been carried out for Ligularia vellerea. We sequenced two chloroplast DNA fragments, trnH-psbA and trnL-rp132, for 157 individuals of 15 populations and a total of 14 haplotypes were identified. These haplotypes clustered into five clades and each of them was mainly distributed in the restricted regions. A strong phylogeographic structure of this species was detected （NsT = 0.851, GST = 0.713; NST 〉 GST, P 〈 0.01）. The strong population differentiation in L. vellerea could be attributed to the repeated glacial/interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene, which has been further enhanced by restricted gene flow caused by the complicated topography in the Hengduan Mountains region that formed during the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The Hengduan Mountains region is considered to be an important reservoir and a differentiation center for temperate and alpine plants during the Cenozoic. To reveal the effects of extreme topography and climate on an organism＇s population genetic structure in this region, a phylogeographic study has been carried out for Ligularia vellerea. We sequenced two chloroplast DNA fragments, trnH-psbA and trnL-rp132, for 157 individuals of 15 populations and a total of 14 haplotypes were identified. These haplotypes clustered into five clades and each of them was mainly distributed in the restricted regions. A strong phylogeographic structure of this species was detected （NsT = 0.851, GST = 0.713; NST 〉 GST, P 〈 0.01）. The strong population differentiation in L. vellerea could be attributed to the repeated glacial/interglacial cycles during the Pleistocene, which has been further enhanced by restricted gene flow caused by the complicated topography in the Hengduan Mountains region that formed during the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

关 键 词：geographical distance Hengduan Mountains region Ligularia vellerea playlogeography 

分 类 号：Q945.11[生物学—植物学] P343.6[天文地球—水文科学]