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A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses

Steven B. Janssens, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Arne Mertens, Gilles Dauby, Samuel Vanden Abeele, Filip Vandelook, Hans Beeckman, Maurizio Mascarello, Vincent Droissart, Marc S.M. Sosef, Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, William Hawthorne, Cecily Marshall, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Denis Beina, Fidele Baya, Léo-Paul M.J. Dagallier, Vincent S.F.T. Merckx, Brecht Verstraete, Olivier Hardy
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/809921
Steven B. Janssens
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
2Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, PO Box 2435, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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  • For correspondence: steven.janssens@botanicgardenmeise.be
Thomas L.P. Couvreur
3IRD, DIADE, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Arne Mertens
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
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Gilles Dauby
4UMR AMAP, IRD, F-34000 Montpellier, France
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Samuel Vanden Abeele
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
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Filip Vandelook
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
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Hans Beeckman
5Royal Museum for Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
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Maurizio Mascarello
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
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Vincent Droissart
4UMR AMAP, IRD, F-34000 Montpellier, France
6Africa & Madagascar Department, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO, USA
7Herbarium et Bibliothéque de Botanique Africaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Marc S.M. Sosef
1Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium
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Michelle van der Bank
8Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland park, Johannesburg PO Box 524, South Africa
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Olivier Maurin
9Department of Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK
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William Hawthorne
10Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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Cecily Marshall
10Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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Maxime Réjou-Méchain
3IRD, DIADE, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
11UPR BSEF, CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet, F-34398 Montpellier, France
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Denis Beina
12Université de Bangui – Cerphameta, BP 1450 Bangui, Central African Republic
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Fidele Baya
13Ministère des Eaux, Forêts, Chasse et Pêche, BP 3314 Bangui, Central African Republic
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Léo-Paul M.J. Dagallier
3IRD, DIADE, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Vincent S.F.T. Merckx
14Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden University, PO Box 9517, 2300RA Leiden, the Netherlands
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Brecht Verstraete
15Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Olivier Hardy
16Laboratoire d’Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Abstract

Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of view, there are far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed a large-scale dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th of all angiosperm species based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK and rbcL. Novel sequences were generated for several species, while the rest of the data were mined from GenBank. The resulting tree was dated using 56 angiosperm fossils as calibration points. The resulting megaphylogeny is one of the largest dated phylogenetic tree of angiosperms yet, consisting of 36,101 sampled species, representing 8,399 genera, 426 families and all orders. This novel framework will be useful to investigate different broad scale research questions in ecological and evolutionary biology.

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A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses
Steven B. Janssens, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Arne Mertens, Gilles Dauby, Samuel Vanden Abeele, Filip Vandelook, Hans Beeckman, Maurizio Mascarello, Vincent Droissart, Marc S.M. Sosef, Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, William Hawthorne, Cecily Marshall, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Denis Beina, Fidele Baya, Léo-Paul M.J. Dagallier, Vincent S.F.T. Merckx, Brecht Verstraete, Olivier Hardy
bioRxiv 809921; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/809921
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A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses
Steven B. Janssens, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Arne Mertens, Gilles Dauby, Samuel Vanden Abeele, Filip Vandelook, Hans Beeckman, Maurizio Mascarello, Vincent Droissart, Marc S.M. Sosef, Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, William Hawthorne, Cecily Marshall, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Denis Beina, Fidele Baya, Léo-Paul M.J. Dagallier, Vincent S.F.T. Merckx, Brecht Verstraete, Olivier Hardy
bioRxiv 809921; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/809921

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