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LAURENT HARDION, ALEX BAUMEL, PIERRE-JEAN DUMAS, NATHALIE DUONG, LAURENCE AFFRE & THIERRY TATONI<br />
Figure 1 – Neighbor-joining distance tree based on a matrix of 49 nrDNA ITS<br />
sequences. Branch lengths are proportional to distances estimated<br />
from Kimura two-parameter distance. Numbers are bootstrap<br />
values for 5000 replicates (values below 50% not indicated).<br />
Clades are identified by letters based on previous molecular<br />
studies (Wojciechowski et al. 1999; Kazempour Osaloo et al. 2005).<br />
102<br />
Astragalus<br />
sensu stricto<br />
Astragalean clade<br />
0.02<br />
C<br />
96<br />
95<br />
79<br />
86<br />
74<br />
75<br />
80<br />
95<br />
60 A. tragacantha Ga1<br />
69 A. tragacantha Ga2<br />
88 A. tragacantha Ga3<br />
94<br />
A. tragacantha Ga4<br />
A. tragacantha Co1<br />
A. tragacantha Co2<br />
A. fragrans<br />
A. odoratus<br />
A. uliginosus<br />
100<br />
A. oreganus<br />
67<br />
A. canadensis<br />
70 A. falcatus<br />
A. depressus<br />
A. cymbicarpos<br />
A. hamosus<br />
A. boeticus<br />
A. edulis<br />
A. glycyphyllos<br />
51<br />
99 A. sinicus<br />
A. complanatus<br />
A. alpinus<br />
A. lamprocarpus<br />
D<br />
A. compactus<br />
89<br />
A. brachycalyx<br />
58 A. cicer<br />
79<br />
A. pulchellus<br />
A. glaux<br />
A. austriacus<br />
64<br />
A. echinatus<br />
A. oophorus<br />
65<br />
A. patagonicus<br />
69<br />
95 A. arizonicus<br />
B<br />
A. siliquosus<br />
89<br />
A. williamsii<br />
99 A. australis<br />
A. chinensis<br />
A<br />
A. vulcanicus<br />
85<br />
A. alopecias<br />
99<br />
A. jessenii<br />
83<br />
74 A. alopecurus<br />
A. kirrindicus<br />
78 A. tawilicus<br />
88 A. dictyolobus<br />
A. epiglottis<br />
65<br />
Oxytropis aucherii<br />
99 Oxytropis splendens<br />
A. yatungensis<br />
92<br />
Lessertia herbacea<br />
Melilotus alba<br />
Neo-Astragalus<br />
Coluteoid clade<br />
A. tragacantha<br />
Vicioid clade<br />
Comparative analysis<br />
In order to compare Astragalus tragacantha<br />
to its nearest relatives according to our phylogenetic<br />
results, different comparative characters<br />
were chosen due to their pertinence to<br />
separate or gather at best studied taxa. In<br />
accordance with Podlech, pubescence<br />
(Podlech 1982) and life cycle (Podlech 1991)<br />
can be discriminatory criteria for Astragalus<br />
phylogenies based on morphological characters.<br />
Wojciechowski et al. (1993) observe correlation<br />
between some clades and chromosome<br />
numbers. Pod length is a morphological<br />
character available from literature for many<br />
species and linked to reproduction. Lastly,<br />
habitat, distribution, and altitude are ecological<br />
and biogeographical criteria which illustrate<br />
the repartition of these astragals.<br />
Results<br />
Including total gaps, length of the aligned<br />
sequences measure 614 bp. This data set contains<br />
223 variable sites. At an interspecific<br />
level, and excluding out-group, the maximum<br />
pairwise P distance (% of nucleotidic differences)<br />
is located between Astragalus epiglottis<br />
and A. edulis (11.3%) and the minimum<br />
between A. complanatus and A. sinicus (0%).<br />
The average overall pairwise distance is 7.6%.<br />
The maximum parsimony and the neighbor<br />
joining (NJ) methods produce similar phylogenies,<br />
and weak dissimilarities between them<br />
are not significant for our study. Therefore we<br />
show only the NJ tree (Figure 1). Coluteoid<br />
clade (with A. yatugensis), a robust gathering<br />
of different species, and Oxytropis (associated<br />
with A. epiglottis) are located into the Astragalean<br />
clade, next to Astragalus sensu stricto,<br />
which contains four well supported clades: A<br />
(bootstrap value of 85%), B (89%), C (96%)<br />
and D (89%). The six sequences of Astragalus<br />
tragacantha are closely gathered in clade C,<br />
with twelve other non-thorny species, and one<br />
of them, Astragalus glycyphyllos, is firmly<br />
attached to the base of clade.<br />
The MP tree (Figure 2) was performed using<br />
a matrix of 18 sequences with a length of 418<br />
bp. Because it does not contain any parsimonious<br />
sites, the 5.8 S region was deleted for<br />
these analyses. In this data set, 28 sites were<br />
parsimoniously informative. Branch and<br />
ecologia mediterranea – Vol. 36 (1) – 2010