Speciation, reproductive isolation, and population genetics in species of Bromeliaceae family: implications for taxonomy, evolution and conservation

• Grant number: 09/52725-3
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Young Investigators Grants
• Duration: December 01, 2009 - November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Botany - Plant Taxonomy
• Principal Investigator: Clarisse Palma da Silva
• Grantee: Clarisse Palma da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated grant(s): 14/06822-5 - Evolution 2014, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/02377-7 - Hybridization among species of Pitcairnia (Bromeliaceae) genus through nuclear microsatellite markers, BP.IC; 09/15052-0 - Phylogeography of the species of Epidendrum (Orchidaceae) belonging to the Atlantic clade (subgenus Amphiglottium), BP.PD; 09/17411-8 - Speciation, reproductive isolation, and population genetics in species of Bromeliaceae family: implications for taxonomy, evolution and conservation, AP.BTA.JP

Abstract

The genetics of population divergence and speciation represents one of the most hotly debated topics in evolutionary biology. Speciation can be viewed as the evolution of reproductive isolation mechanisms between formerly interbreeding populations which is brought about and subsequently maintained by barriers to gene exchange to allow incipient species to be considered distinct entities. However, breeding between distinct species (hybridization) are relatively frequent in plants and animals, its importance and evolutive consequences is a matter of controversy. Regarding to evolutionary diversification, some authors focus hybridization as a primarily local and transient phenomenon that creates a kind of evolutionary noise, but is otherwise of little evolutionary significance. Others, in contrast, view hybridization as a powerful evolutionary force that creates opportunities for adaptative evolution and speciation in natural population genetic structure and consequences of the process of natural hybridization and introgression in incipient species. The objective of this project is to study the nature of reproductive isolation between sympatric populations of congenere species of Bromeliaceae family, by characterizing the populations’ genetic structure revealed by uni and biparental molecular markers. These informations are necessary to understand the processes shaping extraordinary biological diversity present in the Neotropical rainforest and the evolutionary consequences of ongoing habitat fragmentation and reduction of population size, with propose of biodiversity conservation. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MOTA, MATEUS RIBEIRO; PINHEIRO, FABIO; DOS SANTOS LEAL, BARBARA SIMOES; SARDELLI, CARLA HAISLER; WENDT, TANIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. From micro- to macroevolution: insights from a Neotropical bromeliad with high population genetic structure adapted to rock outcrops. HEREDITY, JUL 2020. (14/15588-6, 14/02377-7, 09/52725-3, 18/07596-0, 15/07685-4)

MOTA, M. R.; PINHEIRO, F.; LEAL, B. S. S.; WENDT, T.; PALMA-SILVA, C.. The role of hybridization and introgression in maintaining species integrity and cohesion in naturally isolated inselberg bromeliad populations. Plant Biology, v. 21, n. 1, p. 122-132, JAN 2019. (09/52725-3, 14/15588-6)

AGUIAR-MELO, CAMILA; ZANELLA, CAMILA M.; GOETZE, MARCIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; HIRSCH, LUIZA D.; NEVES, BEATRIZ; DA COSTA, ANDREA F.; BERED, FERNANDA. Ecological niche modeling and a lack of phylogeographic structure in Vriesea incurvata suggest historically stable areas in the southern Atlantic Forest. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, v. 106, n. 7, p. 971-983, JUL 2019. (09/52725-3)

TURCHETTO-ZOLET, A. C.; PINHEIRO, F.; SALGUEIRO, F.; PALMA-SILVA, C.. Phylogeographical patterns shed light on evolutionary process in South America. Molecular Ecology, v. 22, n. 5, p. 1193-1213, MAR 2013. (09/17411-8, 09/52725-3)

PINHEIRO, FABIO; COZZOLINO, SALVATORE; DE BARROS, FABIO; GOUVEIA, TIAGO M. Z. M.; SUZUKI, ROGERIO M.; FAY, MICHAEL F.; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE AND OUTBREEDING DEPRESSION REVEAL EARLY STAGES OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION IN THE NEOTROPICAL ORCHID EPIDENDRUM DENTICULATUM. Evolution, v. 67, n. 7, p. 2024-2039, JUL 2013. (09/15052-0, 09/17411-8, 09/52725-3)

ZANELLA, CAMILA M.; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; GOETZE, MARCIA; BERED, FERNANDA. Hybridization between two sister species of Bromeliaceae: Vriesea carinata and V.incurvata. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 181, n. 3, SI, p. 491-504, JUL 2016. (09/52725-3)

NERI, JORDANA; WENDT, TANIA; LELES, BRUNO; DOS SANTOS, MANOEL FRANCISCO; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Variation in reproductive systems facilitates species boundaries of sympatric Vriesea (Bromeliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 184, n. 2, p. 272-279, JUN 1 2017. (15/10778-4, 09/52725-3)

PINHEIRO, FABIO; DE MELO E GOUVEIA, TIAGO MANUEL ZANFRA; COZZOLINO, SALVATORE; CAFASSO, DONATA; CARDOSO-GUSTAVSON, POLIANA; SUZUKI, ROGERIO MAMORU; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Strong but permeable barriers to gene exchange between sister species of Epidendrum. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, v. 103, n. 8, p. 1472-1482, AUG 2016. (09/15052-0, 10/19617-0, 09/52725-3, 13/02453-2)

AOKI-GONCALVES, FELIPE; LOUZADA, RAFAEL B.; DE SOUZA, LIVIA MOURA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. MICROSATELLITE LOCI FOR ORTHOPHYTUM OPHIUROIDES (BROMELIOIDEAE, BROMELIACEAE) SPECIES ADAPTED TO NEOTROPICAL ROCK OUTCROPS. APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES, v. 2, n. 3, MAR 2014. (09/17411-8, 09/52725-3)

NERI, JORDANA; WENDT, TANIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Natural hybridization and genetic and morphological variation between two epiphytic bromeliads. AOB PLANTS, v. 10, n. 1, FEB 2018. (09/52725-3)

GOETZE, MARCIA; SCHULTE, KATHARINA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; ZANELLA, CAMILA M.; BUTTOW, MIRIAM V.; CAPRA, FERNANDA; BERED, FERNANDA. Diversification of Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: A case study in Aechmea subgenus Ortgiesia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 98, p. 346-357, MAY 2016. (09/52725-3)

NERI, JORDANA; NAZARENO, ALISON GONCALVES; WENDT, TANIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Vriesea simplex (Bromeliaceae) and cross-amplification in other species of Bromeliaceae. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, v. 58, p. 34-37, FEB 2015. (09/52725-3)

PINHEIRO, FBIO; COZZOLINO, SALVATORE; DRAPER, DAVID; DE BARROS, FABIO; FELIX, LEONARDO P.; FAY, MICHAEL F.; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Rock outcrop orchids reveal the genetic connectivity and diversity of inselbergs of northeastern Brazil. BMC Evolutionary Biology, v. 14, MAR 15 2014. (09/15052-0, 09/17411-8, 09/52725-3)

GOETZE, MARCIA; ZANELLA, CAMILA M.; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; BUTTOW, MIRIAM V.; BERED, FERNANDA. Incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization in the evolutionary history of closely related, endemic yellow-flowered Aechmea species of subgenus Ortgiesia (Bromeliaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, v. 104, n. 7, p. 1073-1087, JUL 2017. (09/52725-3)

MOTA, MATEUS RIBEIRO; PINHEIRO, FABIO; DOS SANTOS LEAL, BARBARA SIMOES; SARDELLI, CARLA HAISLER; WENDT, TANIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. From micro- to macroevolution: insights from a Neotropical bromeliad with high population genetic structure adapted to rock outcrops. HEREDITY, v. 125, n. 5, p. 353-370, NOV 2020. (14/02377-7, 14/15588-6, 18/07596-0, 15/07685-4, 09/52725-3)

PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; COZZOLINO, SALVATORE; PAGGI, GECELE MATOS; LEXER, CHRISTIAN; WENDT, TANIA. MATING SYSTEM VARIATION AND ASSORTATIVE MATING OF SYMPATRIC BROMELIADS (PITCAIRNIA SPP.) ENDEMIC TO NEOTROPICAL INSELBERGS. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 758-764, MAY 2015. (09/17411-8, 09/52725-3)

ANDRE, THIAGO; SPECHT, CHELSEA; SALZMAN, SHAYLA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; WENDT, TANIA. Evolution of species diversity in the genus Chamaecostus (Costaceae): molecular phylogenetics and morphometric approaches. PHYTOTAXA, v. 204, n. 4, p. 265-276, APR 8 2015. (09/52725-3)

MORAES, ANA P.; CHINAGLIA, MARIANA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; PINHEIRO, FABIO. Interploidy hybridization in sympatric zones: the formation of Epidendrum fulgens x E. puniceoluteum hybrids (Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae). ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 3, n. 11, p. 3824-3837, OCT 2013. (09/15052-0, 11/00608-3, 12/22077-2, 09/52725-3, 09/17411-8, 11/22215-3)

THABATA CARVALHO; GIULIANA GARCIA; CAROLINA SILVA CARVALHO; CLARISSE PALMA-SILVA; LAURENCE CULOT. Desenvolvimento de locos de microssatélites para Cryptocarya mandioccana Meisner (Lauraceae) e o sucesso de genotipagem em diferentes tecidos. Hoehnea, v. 44, n. 4, p. 580-587, 2017-12-00. (10/16075-1, 14/20621-2, 09/52725-3, 14/20622-9, 14/14739-0, 14/01029-5)

PESSOA, EDLLEY MAX; ALVES, MARCEUS; ALVES-ARAUJO, ANDERSON; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; PINHEIRO, FABIO. Integrating different tools to disentangle species complexes: A case study in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae). Taxon, v. 61, n. 4, p. 721-734, AUG 2012. (09/15052-0, 09/52725-3)

LOUZADA, RAFAEL B.; SCHULTE, KATHARINA; WANDERLEY, MARIA DAS GRACAS L.; SILVESTRO, DANIELE; ZIZKA, GEORG; BARFUSS, MICHAEL H. J.; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE. Molecular phylogeny of the Brazilian endemic genus Orthophytum (Bromelioideae, Bromeliaceae) and its implications on morphological character evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v. 77, p. 54-64, AUG 2014. (09/52725-3)

GOETZE, MARCIA; PALMA-SILVA, CLARISSE; ZANELLA, CAMILA MARTINI; BERED, FERNANDA. East-to-west genetic structure in populations of Aechmea calyculata (Bromeliaceae) from the southern Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 181, n. 3, SI, p. 477-490, JUL 2016. (09/52725-3)

PALMA-SILVA, C.; FERRO, M.; BACCI, M.; TURCHETTO-ZOLET, A. C.. De novo assembly and characterization of leaf and floral transcriptomes of the hybridizing bromeliad species (Pitcairnia spp.) adapted to Neotropical Inselbergs. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, v. 16, n. 4, p. 1012-1022, JUL 2016. (09/52725-3)