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The road to evolutionary success: insights from the demographic history of an Amazonian palm.
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- Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- On creativity and meaning: The intricate relationship between creativity and meaning in life and creativity as the means to repay existential debt.Communicative & integrative biology · 2025Review
- Genotyping-by-sequencing informs conservation of Andean palms sources of non-timber forest products.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Recent demographic histories of temperate deciduous trees inferred from microsatellite markers.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Unraveling the Phylogenomic Relationships of the Most Diverse African Palm GenusPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Selective Sweeps Lead to Evolutionary Success in an Amazonian Hyperdominant Palm.Frontiers in genetics · 2020Article
- Endangered but genetically stable-Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Cytological and histochemical evaluations reveal roles of the cotyledonary petiole in the germination and seedling development of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae).Protoplasma · 2019Article
- Adjacency and Area Explain Species Bioregional Shifts in Neotropical Palms.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Evolutionary success, as demonstrated by high abundance and a wide geographical range, is related to genetic variation and historical demography. Here we assess how climatic change during the Quaternary influenced the demography and distribution of the Neotropical swamp palm Mauritia flexuosa. Using microsatellite loci and coalescent analyses we examined how demographical dynamics affected genetic diversity, effective population size and connectivity through time and space. Mauritia flexuosa presents significant genetic differentiation between the Amazonian and Cerrado biomes and among different river basins. Amazonian lineages are ancient compared to lineages from the Cerrado, a pattern corroborated using the fossil pollen record, where the species was absent from the Cerrado during the cold and dry periods of the last glacial cycles, then returned during the wet, interglacial phases. Coalescent simulations show that the pattern of observed genetic diversity for M. flexuosa is most likely due to a range retraction during the Last Glacial Maximum, leading to multiple refugia and resulting in high differentiation between Amazonian and Cerrado biomes. Isolation-by-distance and by-environment also shaped the distribution and evolutionary success of M. flexuosa. Our study provides new insights into the historical factors that affected geographical distribution and structure genetic diversity, contributing to long-term evolutionary success.
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