Doyle, J. (credit: United States Geological Survey) A. Molecular and fossil evidence on the origin of angiosperms. New Phytol doi: 10.1111/nph.14483 (2017). 53, 673684 (2004). In principle, the fossil record could inform us about the plausibility of our reconstructed ancestral flower and our proposed scenario for its subsequent diversification. We infer ancestral states for 27 floral traits using three approaches: maximum parsimony (MP), maximum likelihood (ML) and a reversible-jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (rjMCMC) Bayesian approach that allows simultaneous exploration of multiple models of morphological evolution. Moore, M. J., Bell, C. D., Soltis, P. S. & Soltis, D. E. Using plastid genome-scale data to resolve enigmatic relationships among basal angiosperms. Based on fieldwork in 13 countries over 6 years, the duo examined the venation of 504 flowering plants and 225 other plants, including 166 extinct species, and looked for trends in venation patterns through time. The relationship between pollinator and flower characteristics is one of the great examples of coevolution. Additional trees and data files are available from the authors on request. Bot. CAS Bot. Clade names in this paper follow APG IV48 and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website49 for orders and families, and Cantino et al.50 and Soltis et al.16 for all clades above order. Publishers note: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. In this history of plants on Earth we are now approaching a time of important events which gradually brought about the situation we see today with the flowering plants being the most obvious ones because of the bright colours of their flowers. Doyle, J. Nat. In addition, we tested the impact of the age of the angiosperms on our ancestral state reconstructions. Friis, E. M., Pedersen, K. R. & Crane, P. R. Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: innovation and evolution in plant reproduction. H.S., M.v.B. Various plant species evolved in different eras. 207, 437453 (2015). Google Scholar. Evolution of Angiosperms. Natl Acad. This scenario has implications for comparative evo-devo studies of floral structure across angiosperms, prompting a re-examination of available evidence and interpretations of ABCE model variants13,33. Am. Thus, we tested the fit of these models using the Akaike Information Criterion corrected for sample size, which allowed us to select the model that best fits the data while minimizing the number of parameters65. Wickett, N. J. et al. Jahrb. Progymnosperms were a transitional group of plants that superficially resembled conifers (cone bearers) because they produced wood from the secondary growth of the vascular tissues; however, they still reproduced like ferns, releasing spores into the environment. 85M generations, which were resampled every 50K generation to produce a set of 1,706 trees. This is a lesson from the tutorial, Seed Plants B 255, 3745 (1994). Article All new phylogenetic and molecular dating analyses were conducted with BEAST 1.8 (ref. J. Exp. 56). All characters are explained and justified in detail in the Supplementary Methods. Annu. A. Chronogram of the extant genera of gymnosperms based on Lu et al. CAS The A series of analyses refers to the original BEAST analyses of Magalln et al.1, which provided a maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree, used in our parsimony and ML analyses, and a collection of 1,042 trees sampled from the posterior stationary distribution, which we used for our Bayesian analyses of trait evolution. Plant Sci. Its wood is very similar to that of Conifers such as pines and cedars. Genet. Each data record in PROTEUS is linked to an explicit source, which allowed us to cross-check, validate or correct many records following initial entry. The surrounding tissues of the ovary thicken, developing into a fruit that will protect the seed and often ensure its dispersal over a wide geographic range. Bartoszek, K., Pienaar, J., Mostad, P., Andersson, S. & Hansen, T. F. A phylogenetic comparative method for studying multivariate adaptation. As we report in detail in the Supplementary Discussion, the estimated general topology, divergence times and ancestral states were remarkably similar across tree series (Supplementary Data 1 and Supplementary Tables 1 and 2). The oldest confirmed fossil flowers are no older than 130Ma6,31,37,38, whereas estimates for the most recent common ancestor of all living angiosperms (that is, the age of our reconstructed ancestral flower) range between 140 and 250Ma1,2,3. and M.v.B.). Evol. Proc. In particular, the structure of the ancestral flower of all living angiosperms is still uncertain. However, several essential aspects of the ancestral flower have so far remained unresolved, due to particularly confounding variation in floral structure among the earliest diverging lineages of angiosperms18,19,20. Syst. A short history about the evolution of gymnosperms December 2016 In book: Fossil Triassic Plants from Europe and their evolution. In the E series, we constrained Chloranthaceae and Ceratophyllaceae to be sister taxa46,47. Bot. Instead, we recorded the total number of perianth parts (sepals plus petals, or tepals). Not all fruits develop from an ovary; such structures are false fruits. Like flowers, fruit can vary tremendously in appearance, size, smell, and taste. Chartier, M. et al. Diggle, P. K. Modularity and intra-floral integration in metameric organisms: plants are more than the sum of their parts. PubMed The key assumption is that genes for essential proteins or RNA structures, such as the ribosomal RNA, are inherently conserved because mutations (changes in the DNA sequence) could compromise the survival of the organism. Fossilized pollen recovered from Jurassic geological material has been attributed to angiosperms. PubMed Central Paleobotanists debate whether angiosperms evolved from small woody bushes, or were basal angiosperms related to tropical grasses. Chartier, M. et al. Rather than being derived from gymnosperms, angiosperms form a sister clade (a species and its descendents) that developed in parallel with the gymnosperms. Syst. Summary (MCC) BEAST trees are provided as Supplementary Data 312 and a complete list of morphological data records and references (extracted from PROTEUS) is provided as Supplementary Data 13. For instance, it was still unknown whether the ancestral flower was unisexual or bisexual21. In particular, complete mitogenomes are available for all major seed plant lineages except Conifer II (non-Pinaceae conifers or Cupressophyta), an . (b) Gains or losses of RNA editing taking place at non-synonymous or synonymous sites. Google Scholar. Using chronograms from molecular dating analyses calibrated with 136 fossil constraints1, we provide the first model-based reconstructions of ancestral flowers at the deepest nodes in the phylogeny of angiosperms. 4 and Supplementary Discussion), suggesting that the sliding boundary ABCE model of Liliaceae could in fact be a conserved Arabidopsis ABCE model expressed in reduced flowers lacking the ancestral two outermost perianth whorls. Nat. Biol. Fossil leaves of ginkgos in the past showed many variations on the Maidenhair plan. J. Bot. We recorded 21 floral traits in 792 species of angiosperms using the collaborative database PROTEUS51. A link between LEAFY and B-gene homologues in Welwitschia mirabilis sheds light on ancestral mechanisms prefiguring floral development. All of our trees also included six outgroup gymnosperm species. Ecol. Foster, C. S. P. et al. 48, 612622 (1999). Based on fossil evidence and molecular clock calibration, the divergence between gymnosperms and angiosperms could be dated to about 300-350 million years ago (Mya) in the Carboniferous (Hedges et al., 2006, Won and Renner, 2006, Clarke et al., 2011, Crisp and Cook, 2011, Magalln et al., 2013). More stable patterns in the early evolutionary history of angiosperms evolved either by reduction in the number of whorls (as outlined above) or by a transition to spiral phyllotaxis, which has been argued to provide an optimal spatial arrangement in flowers with many organs36. Anger, N., Fogliani, B., Scutt, C. P. & Gtebl, G. Dioecy in Amborella trichopoda: evidence for genetically based sex determination and its consequences for inferences of the breeding system in early angiosperms. Drummond, A. J., Suchard, M. A., Xie, D. & Rambaut, A. Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7. Phylogenetic trees, such as the plant evolutionary history shown in the figure below, are tree-like branching diagrams that depict these relationships. ISSN 2041-1723 (online). We thus obtained a new set of 22 presumably independent characters and analysed all 231 pairwise correlations among these characters (Table 1). Smith, S. D. Pleiotropy and the evolution of floral integration. The B series of analyses refers to the reanalysis of the data set of Magalln et al.1 in BEAST 1.8 (ref. This particularly so in older rocks because the discovery of carpels might pre-date all other known occurrences and could be very valuable in determining the evolution of flowering plants. By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. Article Ann. Endress, P. K. & Doyle, J. A. We also reanalysed this data set in a number of alternative ways to evaluate the impact of various parameters of this dated tree on our analyses. The ML approach allowed us to test the fit of a small set of combined Markov models (that is, with 4 4 Q matrices to model all possible transitions among the four possible combined states, excluding dual transitions), including correlated (dependent) and uncorrelated (independent) models60. We infer that the flower of the most recent common ancestor of all living angiosperms (hereafter referred to as the ancestral flower) was most likely bisexual and had an undifferentiated perianth of more than ten tepals, an androecium of more than ten stamens, and a gynoecium of more than five carpels. Lewis, P. O. Figure 1. Syst. 204, 841853 (2014). . Flowering plants are the most diverse phylum on Earth after insects; flowers come in a bewildering array of sizes, shapes, colors, smells, and arrangements. (credit: W. T. Lee, USGS). Plant Sci. Yet, the origin and early evolution of their most characteristic feature, the flower, remains poorly understood. We use cookies and similar technologies to ensure our website works properly, personalize your browsing experience, analyze how you use our website, and deliver relevant ads to you. However, accounting for these correlations does not substantially affect the results obtained from analyses of individual traits (Supplementary Data 2 and Supplementary Discussion). Google Scholar. The colours, shapes and relative sizes of organs were not inferred from our analyses and were chosen here for artistic reasons. Res. PubMed Central 1). USA 111, E4859E4868 (2014). ADS 5)22. J. In several cases, these CIs are very wide, with probabilities ranging from ca. As for our single-trait analyses, we used both an ML and a Bayesian rjMCMC approach to test for correlations and their impact on reconstructed ancestral states, using again the rayDISC function of corHMM 1.18 (ref. The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification. Here, we focus on and report results for 15 key nodes in the phylogeny of angiosperms, corresponding to well-recognized major clades (including Angiospermae, Mesangiospermae, Magnoliidae, Monocotyledoneae, Eudicotyledoneae, Pentapetalae, Rosidae and Asteridae). In angiosperms, individual flowers can be unisexual, with separate male and female flower structures, or . Article To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Sauquet, H., von Balthazar, M., Magalln, S. et al. Version 12, July 2012. Evolution 5, 299324 (1951). Google Scholar. USA 104, 1936319368 (2007). Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. As has been suggested already, this is not a very good name for the group because in many cases (for example, conifers such as pines and cedars) the seeds are anything but naked. Both fertilization and embryo development take place inside an anatomical structure that provides a stable system of sexual reproduction largely sheltered from environmental fluctuations. Herv Sauquet or Jrg Schnenberger. Nature 450, 11841189 (2007). Soltis, D. E. et al. Cantino, P. D. et al. It will be understood, therefore, that when Caytonia [Fig.21] was first discovered in rocks about 160 million years old there was considerable interest among palaeobotanists. Angiosperms produce their gametes in separate organs, which are usually housed in a flower. However, some groups and relationships have been rearranged as a result of DNA analysis. Methods Ecol. Biol. Evolution 51, 16991711 (1997). To assess a widely held hypothesis that the rise of angiosperms drove the decline of gymnosperms (here approximated with conifers), we estimate their diversification processes using an integrative approach that combines molecular phylogenetics and paleontological data. Basal angiosperms, such as water lilies, are considered more primitive because they share morphological traits with both monocots and eudicots. Murat, F., Armero, A., Pont, C., Klopp, C. & Salse, J. Reconstructing the genome of the most recent common ancestor of flowering plants. In. This approach allows us to uncover important clues on the origin and subsequent diversification of the flower by providing estimates of what flowers were like at key points in time. Am. In this study, we make these inferences based on the distribution of traits in extant angiosperms and their phylogenetic relationships, and, for the first time, methods using explicit models of stochastic evolution for morphological characters. Biol. The researchers wondered if the evolution of more veins per leaf gave angiosperms the boost they needed to become widespread. Rev. Various plant species evolved in different eras. 181, 120 (2016). Register or login to receive notifications when there's a reply to your comment or update on this information. B 284, 20170066 (2017). 53, 793808 (2004). Plant Rev. Int. Google Scholar. Thus Ginkgo biloba is known as the Maidenhair Tree. The C series of analyses refers to the same setup as the B series, but with two topological constraints for deep-level angiosperm relationships: (1) Amborella sister to the rest of angiosperms; (2) Monocotyledoneae+Ceratophyllaceae+ Eudicotyledoneae together forming a clade (excluding Chloranthaceae and Magnoliidae; Supplementary Fig. Further, we show that the perianth was radially symmetric (actinomorphic), the stamens had introrse anthers (that is, shedding their pollen towards the centre of the flower), the carpels were superior and most likely spirally arranged, and all floral organs were free from each other. Therefore, we systematically tested both inferences using flat priors32,63 (equal probability for all states, the default option in most R packages) and a prior with root state frequencies same as equilibrium64 (we denote such variants with the eq suffix, for example, ARDeq is the implementation of the ARD model with equilibrium root prior), for all models except ER (equilibrium=equal frequencies) and the unidirectional models (root state implied by the model). 2004 Feb;37(4 . Clavel, J., Escarguel, G. & Merceron, G. mvMORPH: an R package for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data. Furthermore, early work on ancestral state reconstruction suggested a positive relationship between uncertainty and node depth32, which would predict that all ancestral states reconstructed for the root of our angiosperm tree should be uncertain. 42) without using any topological constraints (that is, topology estimated, not fixed), and with all other parameters equal (see below). PubMed R Core Team. The biggest difference between gymnosperm and angiosperms lies in their seeds. Endress, P. K. Angiosperm floral evolution: morphological developmental framework. Basinger, J. F. & Dilcher, D. L. Ancient bisexual flowers. 2 and Supplementary Discussion). This figure only depicts the presumed first 40 million years of floral evolution, without exhaustively representing every new morphology that arose during that time. Int. Crane, P. R., Friis, E. M. & Pedersen, K. R. The origin and early diversification of angiosperms. We thank Ursula Schachner for help in organizing this event; Ralf Buchner for set-up of the eFLOWER server; and Purificacin Lpez-Garca, Susanne Renner and Erik Smets for critical input on an earlier draft of this paper. PubMed Confidence scores on a three-star scale were attributed for each trait-node combination based on the cross-comparison of MP, ML and rjMCMC results and the lower bound of the rjMCMC credibility intervals (see Supplementary Discussion for details). Maddison, W. P. & Maddison, D. R. Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis, Version 3.03. 6, 13111319 (2015). Volume 1: Conifers and Cycads (pp.3-16) Edition: First edition. CAS Sauquet, H. PROTEUS: A database for recording morphological data and creating NEXUS matrices, Version 1.26. ADS The authors declare no competing financial interests. Support for correlation is here measured by the Bayes Factor comparing the dependent models to the independent models, rewritten as the ratio of the posterior to the prior odds of the two models56: BFDI=[P(MD|D)/P(MI|D)]/[(2114651)/51], where P(MD|D) and P(MI|D) are the sampling frequencies of dependent and independent models, respectively. The earliest seedlike bodies are found in rocks of the Upper Devonian Series (about 382.7 million to 358.9 million years ago). Doyle, J. PubMed Central By the mid-Cretaceous, a staggering number of diverse flowering plants crowd the fossil record. Biol. Many attract animals that will eat the fruit and pass the seeds through their digestive systems, then deposit the seeds in another location. R.C., A.H. and S.P. Thus, integrating phylogenetic uncertainty in our Bayesian analyses of trait evolution was the primary motivation for reanalysing the data set in BEAST without fixing the topology. Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta. Ann. In the D series, we constrained Chloranthaceae, Magnoliidae, Ceratophyllaceae and Eudicotyledoneae to form a clade23. The A200, B200, C200, D200 and E200 series refer to the exact same setups as the A, B, C, D and E series, but with this constraint removed, resulting in chronograms with crown angiosperms typically over 200Ma old. Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. Early Fowers and Angiosperm Evolution Cambridge University Press (2011).
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