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Article Dans Une Revue American Journal of Botany Année : 2023

Fewer chromosomes, more co-occurring species within plant lineages - a likely effect of local survival and colonization

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PREMISE: Plant lineages differ markedly in species richness globally, regionally, and locally. Differences in whole-genome characteristics (WGCs) such as monoploid chromosome number, genome size, and ploidy level may explain differences in global species richness through speciation or global extinction. However, it is unknown whether WGCs drive species richness within lineages also in a recent, postglacial regional flora, or in local plant communities, through local extinction or colonization and regional species turn-over. METHODS: We tested for relationships between WGCs and richness of angiosperm families across the Netherlands/Germany/Czechia as a region, and within 193449 local vegetation plots. KEY RESULTS: Families that are species-rich across the region have lower ploidy levels and small monoploid chromosomes numbers or both (interaction terms), but the relationships disappear after accounting for continental and local richness of families. Families that are species-rich within occupied localities have small numbers of polyploidy and monoploid chromosome numbers or both, independent of their own regional richness and the local richness of all other locally co-occurring species in the plots. Relationships between WGCs and family species-richness persisted after accounting for niche characteristics and life histories. CONCLUSIONS: Families that have few chromosomes, either monoploid or holoploid, succeed in maintaining many species in local communities and across a continent and, as indirect consequence of both, across a region. We suggest evolutionary mechanisms how small chromosome numbers and ploidy levels might decrease rates of local extinction and increase rates of colonization. The genome of a macroevolutionary lineage may ultimately control whether its species can ecologically coexist.
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hal-04013659 , version 1 (24-03-2023)

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Igor V. Bartish, Salomé Bonnefoi, Abdelkader Aïnouche, Helge Bruelheide, Mark Bartish, et al.. Fewer chromosomes, more co-occurring species within plant lineages - a likely effect of local survival and colonization. American Journal of Botany, 2023, ⟨10.1002/ajb2.16139⟩. ⟨hal-04013659⟩
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