Claim · model-written summary
Commelinales and Zingiberales are sister taxa.
- Taxon
- CommelinalesCommelinalese0
- Outcome
- Commelinales and Zingiberales are sister taxae0
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Verbatim
e0“Commelinales and Zingiberales are sister taxa”
Title
Molecular systematic studies in commelinid monocots
Saarela, Jeffery Michael cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2011. doi:10.14288/1.0100351
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- Observation Parsimony and likelihood phylogenetic inferences were generally congruent.
- Observation Positions of Arecales and Dasypogonaceae remained unclear.
- Observation Commelinales contains two stated family clades.
- Observation Philydrella is sister to the rest of Philydraceae.
- Observation Poales contains the stated cyperid clade.
- Observation Poales contains the stated core clade with graminid and restiid branches.
- Observation Ecdeiocoleaceae was moderately supported as sister to Poaceae in densely sampled analyses.
- Observation Mayacaceae placement differed between parsimony and likelihood analyses.
- Observation Rapateaceae belong to a clade including all Poales except Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae.
- Observation Basal positions of Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae in Poales were unresolved.
- Observation Anomochlooideae and the BEP clade were strongly supported.
- Observation Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae and Puelioideae are successive sister groups of remaining grasses.
- Observation Bambusoideae and Pooideae are sister taxa.
- Observation Accelerated plastid substitution rate in Poaceae is shared with most Poales lineages.
- Observation Several traditional Bromus sections were monophyletic.
- Observation Bromopsis section was not monophyletic.
- Observation Plastid and nuclear linkage groups showed some incongruence in Bromus.
- Observation Hydatellaceae were placed outside commelinids and monocots.
- Observation Hydatellaceae were placed as sister to water lilies, corroborated by nuclear data and morphology.