Historical biogeography of the genus Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae, Coniferales) based on its fossil record

Liu, Yusheng; Mohr, Barbara A. R.; Basinger, James F.

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“…Phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear ITS sequences (Wang et al, 2003) suggested two intercontinental sister species pairs: C. thyoides (ENa) and C. pisifera (Japan), and C. lawsoniana (WNa) and C. obtusa (Japan and Taiwan), with an estimated divergence time of 14 and 5.5 million years ago during middle and late Miocene, respectively. The fossil evidence favors the hypothesis that earlier members of Chamaecyparis had a wider distribution in the mid to high latitudes of North America and Europe during the Paleogene and that they spread via the North Atlantic land bridges (Liu et al, 2009). Eastern Asian Chamaecyparis most likely migrated from North America via Beringia during the Paleogene or from Europe eastwards after the Oligocene, when the Turgai Strait retreated.…”

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Intercontinental disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in vascular plants highlight the biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from late Cretaceous to Neogene

Wen

Nie

Ickert‐Bond

2016

J of Sytematics Evolution

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This review shows a close biogeographic connection between eastern Asia and western North America from the late Cretaceous to the late Neogene in major lineages of vascular plants (flowering plants, gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes). Of the eastern Asian-North American disjuncts, conifers exhibit a high proportion of disjuncts between eastern Asia and western North America. Several lineages of ferns also show a recent disjunct pattern in the two areas. In flowering plants, the pattern is commonly shown in temperate elements between northeastern Asia and northwestern North America, as well as elements of the relict boreotropical and Neogene mesophytic and coniferous floras. The many cases of intercontinental biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in plants supported by recent phylogenetic analyses highlight the importance of the Bering land bridge and/or the plant migrations across the Beringian region from the late Cretaceous to the late Neogene, especially during the Miocene. The Beringian region has permitted the filtering and migration of certain plant taxa since the Pliocene after the opening of the Bering Strait, as many conspecific taxa or closely related species occur on both sides of Beringia.

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Intercontinental disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in vascular plants highlight the biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from late Cretaceous to Neogene

Wen

Nie

Ickert‐Bond

2016

J of Sytematics Evolution

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“…Species of Torreya were widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere during the Cretaceous but are now restricted to East Asia and North America [ 44 , 53 ]. Other examples include the genera Chamaecyparis [ 54 ], Austrocedrus [ 55 ], and Calocedrus [ 56 ] having wider distributions in the past. Fossils of Thuja have been widely found in sediments of Paleocene to Pleistocene age in the Northern Hemisphere from 36.8°N to 86.3°N [ 26 , 57 ], reflecting an early widespread distribution of Thuja .…”

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Plastome Phylogenomic and Biogeographical Study on Thuja (Cupressaceae)

Adelalu

Zhang

et al. 2020

BioMed Research International

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Investigating the biogeographical disjunction of East Asian and North American flora is key to understanding the formation and dynamics of biodiversity in the Northern Hemisphere. The small Cupressaceae genus Thuja, comprising five species, exhibits a typical disjunct distribution in East Asia and North America. Owing to obscure relationships, the biogeographical history of the genus remains controversial. Here, complete plastomes were employed to investigate the plastome evolution, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeographic history of Thuja. All plastomes of Thuja share the same gene content arranged in the same order. The loss of an IR was evident in all Thuja plastomes, and the B-arrangement as previously recognized was detected. Phylogenomic analyses resolved two sister pairs, T. standishii-T. koraiensis and T. occidentalis-T. sutchuenensis, with T. plicata sister to T. occidentalis-T. sutchuenensis. Molecular dating and biogeographic results suggest the diversification of Thuja occurred in the Middle Miocene, and the ancestral area of extant species was located in northern East Asia. Incorporating the fossil record, we inferred that Thuja likely originated from the high-latitude areas of North America in the Paleocene with a second diversification center in northern East Asia. The current geographical distribution of Thuja was likely shaped by dispersal events attributed to the Bering Land Bridge in the Miocene and subsequent vicariance events accompanying climate cooling. The potential effect of extinction may have profound influence on the biogeographical history of Thuja.

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“…Our study indicated that both hypotheses may be jointly applied to explain the formation of the current intercontinental disjunct distribution of Chamaecyparis . Fossil records indicate the wide distribution of this genus in the Northern Hemisphere during the Tertiary ( Liu et al., 2009 ). Climatic cooling at the end of the Neogene and the Quaternary significantly shaped the current distribution of Chamaecyparis ( Graham, 1993 , Manchester, 1999 ).…”

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“…We thus used the tree based on plastid markers ( Liao et al., 2010 , Mao et al., 2012 ), in which Chamaecyparis was resolved into a C. thyoides ( C. formosensis + C. pisifera ) clade and a C. lawsoniana ( C. obtusa + C. taiwanensis ) clade. In addition, this genus has abundant Tertiary fossil records from Europe, Asia and NA ( Liu et al., 2009 ). Chamaecyparis is thus a good model to test the previous hypotheses concerning the formation of the eastern Asian and North American biogeographic disjunction.…”

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Evolution of biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and North America in Chamaecyparis : Insights from ecological niche models

Liu

Wen

2017

Plant Diversity

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The disjunct distribution of plants between eastern Asia (EA) and North America (NA) is one of the most well-known biogeographic patterns. However, the formation and historical process of this pattern have been long debated. Chamaecyparis is a good model to test previous hypotheses about the formation of this disjunct pattern as it contains six species disjunctly distributed in EA, western North America (WNA) and eastern North America (ENA). In this study, we applied ecological niche models to test the formation of the disjunct pattern of Chamaecyparis. The model calibrated with the EA species was able to predict the distribution of eastern NA species well, but not the western NA species. Furthermore, the eastern Asian species were shown to have higher niche overlap with the eastern North American species. The EA species were also shown to share more similar habitats with ENA species than with WNA species in the genus. Chamaecyparis species in WNA experienced a significant niche shift compared with congeneric species. Chamaecyparis had a low number of suitable regions in Europe and the middle and western NA during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period, and became extinct in the former region whereas it retains residual distribution in the latter. The extirpations in western NA and Europe in response to the late Neogene and Quaternary climatic cooling and the more similar habitats between ENA and EA ultimately shaped the current intercontinental disjunct distribution of Chamaecyparis. Both current hypotheses may be also jointly applied to explain more eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunctions observed today.

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Historical biogeography of the genus Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae, Coniferales) based on its fossil record

Abstract: The megafossil record of Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae)

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Intercontinental disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in vascular plants highlight the biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from late Cretaceous to Neogene

Intercontinental disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in vascular plants highlight the biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from late Cretaceous to Neogene

Plastome Phylogenomic and Biogeographical Study on Thuja (Cupressaceae)

Evolution of biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and North America in Chamaecyparis : Insights from ecological niche models

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