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ArticleAmerican journal of botany2022

Coalescent-based species delimitation in North American pinyon pines using low-copy nuclear genes and plastomes.

José-Rubén Montes, Pablo Peláez, Alejandra Moreno-Letelier, David S Gernandt

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José-Rubén MontesPosgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6441-5983
Pablo PeláezCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Alejandra Moreno-LetelierJardín Botánico, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
David S GernandtDepartamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-3592-994X

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premiseAccurate species delimitation is essential for evolutionary biology, conservation, and biodiversity management. We studied species delimitation in North American pinyon pines, Pinus subsection Cembroides, a natural group with high levels of incomplete lineage sorting.

methodsWe used coalescent-based methods and multivariate analyses of low-copy number nuclear genes and nearly complete high-copy number plastomes generated with the Hyb-Seq method. The three coalescent-based species delimitation methods evaluated were the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent (GMYC), Poisson Tree Process (PTP), and Trinomial Distribution of Triplets (Tr2). We also measured admixture in populations with possible introgression.

resultsOur results show inconsistencies among GMYC, PTP, and Tr2. The single-locus based GMYC analysis of plastid DNA recovered a higher number of species (up to 24 entities, including singleton lineages and clusters) than PTP and the multi-locus coalescent approach. The PTP analysis identified 10 species whereas Tr2 recovered 13, which agreed closely with taxonomic treatments.

conclusionsWe found that PTP and GMYC identified species with low levels of ILS and high morphological divergence (P. maximartinezii, P. pinceana, and P. rzedowskii). However, GMYC method oversplit species by identification of more divergent samples as singletons. Moreover, both PTP and GMYC were incapable of identifying some species that are readily identified morphologically. We suggest that the divergence times between lineages within North American pinyon pines are so disparate that GMYC results are unreliable. Results of the Tr2 method coincided well with previous delimitations based on morphology, DNA, geography, and secondary chemistry.

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Cell NucleusPinusDNANorth AmericaPhylogenyDNAcoalescent theoryconifersGMYCHyb-Seqincomplete lineage sortingPinaceaepinesPTPTr2

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