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Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
Phylogenetic studies based on different types and treatment of data provide substantially conflicting hypotheses of relationships among seed plants. We conducted phylogenetic analyses of sequences of two highly conserved chloroplast genes, psaA and psbB, for a comprehensive taxonomic sample of seed plants and land plants. Parsimony analyses of two different codon position partitions resulted in well-supported, but significantly conflicting, phylogenetic trees. First and second codon positions place angiosperms and gymnosperms as sister clades and Gnetales as sister to Pinaceae. Third positions place Gnetales as sister to all other seed plants. Maximum likelihood trees for the two partitions are also in conflict. Relationships among the main seed plant clades according to first and second positions are similar to those found in parsimony analysis for the same data, but the third position maximum likelihood tree is substantially different from the corresponding parsimony tree, although it agrees partially with the first and second position trees in placing Gnetales as the sister group of Pinaceae. Our results document high rate heterogeneity among lineages, which, together with the greater average rate of substitution for third positions, may reduce phylogenetic signal due to long-branch attraction in parsimony reconstructions. Whereas resolution of relationships among major seed plant clades remains pending, this study provides increased support for relationships within major seed plant clades.
Key Words: angiosperms • Gnetales • gymnosperms • long-branch attraction • maximum likelihood • psaA • psbB • third codon positions
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