2001
Phylogeny of the Celastraceae inferred from phytochrome B gene sequence and morphology
Abstract: Phylogenetic relationships within Celastraceae were inferred using a simultaneous analysis of 61 morphological characters and 1123 base pairs of phytochrome B exon 1 from the nuclear genome. No gaps were inferred, and the gene tree topology suggests that the primers were specific to a single locus that did not duplicate among the lineages sampled. This region of phytochrome B was most useful for examining relationships among closely related genera. Fifty-one species from 38 genera of Celastraceae were sampled.…
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“…Whether this relationship may be casual or a result of both being correlated with a third and independent variable, such as body size (Martin and Palumbi 1993;Gillooly et al 2005), remains to be ascertained. However, we suggest evidence for covariation with rates of cladogenesis is weak, in agreement with Barraclough and Savolainen (2001). If the processes driving morphological change are sensitive to general evolutionary rates, the relationship between rates of change should be strongest for neutral substitutions (also see Omland 1997).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…Whether this relationship may be casual or a result of both being correlated with a third and independent variable, such as body size (Martin and Palumbi 1993;Gillooly et al 2005), remains to be ascertained. However, we suggest evidence for covariation with rates of cladogenesis is weak, in agreement with Barraclough and Savolainen (2001). If the processes driving morphological change are sensitive to general evolutionary rates, the relationship between rates of change should be strongest for neutral substitutions (also see Omland 1997).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…The analysis shows that all the tribes are closely linked. This fact corroborates the idea of a unified family, in line with recent workers who have included Hippocrateaceae within Celastraceae [2,6,7,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”
Section: Familysupporting
confidence: 89%
“…To the best of our knowledge, 2 constitutes the first recorded example of this type of adduct isolated from a natural source. In addition, this phytochemical study supports the reassignment of the genus Goupia as reported by Simmons et al [11] since the metabolite profile of G. glabra does not relate to the usual compounds present in the Celastraceae.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 71%
“…To the best of our knowledge, 2 constitutes the first example of a naphthotropolone DielsϪAlder adduct isolated from a natural source. In addition, this phytochemical study supports the reassignment of the genus Goupia as reported by Simmons et al [11] Compounds 1 and 2 exhibit significant toxicity towards a panel of DNA damage checkpoint defective yeast mutantsthey behave as genotoxins -which suggests that these molecules are possible anticancer drugs.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 60%
