2023 journal article
Foliar endophyte diversity in Eastern Asian-Eastern North American disjunct tree species - influences of host identity, environment, phylogeny, and geographic isolation
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 14.
author keywords: allopatric divergence; Cornus; comparative analyses; foliar endophytic community; fungal ITS; bacterial 16S rDNA; phylogeny; alpha and beta diversity
TL;DR:
It is suggested that the sister taxa in EA and ENA likely differ in FEF and FEB when growing in native habitats due to differences in local environments, which may potentially drive allopatric divergence of the functional features of species.
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IntroductionThe well-known eastern Asian (EA) and eastern North American (ENA) floristic disjunction provides a unique system for biogeographic and evolutionary studies. Despite considerable interest in the disjunction, few studies have investigated the patterns and their underlying drivers of allopatric divergence in sister species or lineages isolated in the two areas. Endophyte diversity and assembly in disjunct sister taxa, as an ecological trait, may have played an important role in the processes of allopatric evolution, but no studies have examined endophytes in these lineages. Here we compared foliar endophytic fungi and bacteria-archaea (FEF and FEB) in 17 EA-ENA disjunct species or clade pairs from genera representing conifers and 10 orders of five major groups of angiosperms and 23 species of Cornus from EA and North America.