@article{1c09ced78ac140cba894c66ffd02e5e8,
title = "Ebony and the Mascarenes: The evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) in the western Indian Ocean",
abstract = "Using analyses that exhaustively sampled Mascarene Diospyros and included representative taxa from Madagascar and other regions, we explored: (1) evolutionary relationships among Diospyros spp. across the WIO and (2) biogeographic connections of Malagasy taxa with those in surrounding regions, particularly focusing on connections with taxa in the Mascarene Islands. We obtained plastid sequence data for 146 Diospyros taxa, including 40 species not previously included in molecular analyses, and conducted Bayesian and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analyses, divergence-time estimation and ancestral area reconstructions. Diospyros sampled from Madagascar fell into two clades, one of which contains all but two Malagasy species. Biogeographic analyses revealed that many clades probably originated in Madagascar and dispersed to locations in Africa and the Mascarenes, indicating that Madagascar may have acted as an important source of diversity for the region.",
keywords = "Madagascar, Mascarenes, biogeography, chloroplast DNA, genetics, geography, phylogenetic analysis, phylogeography",
author = "Linan, {Alexander G.} and Schatz, {George E.} and Lowry, {Porter P.} and Allison Miller and Edwards, {Christine E.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank:Jim Solomon,Andrea Voyer and Eric Feltz for assistance in preparing herbarium vouchers and procuring silica dried leaf material; the staff of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF), Mauritius National Parks and Conservation Service (NPCS), Mauritius Forestry Service, the Mauritius herbarium and particularly Vikash Tatayah, Reshad Jhangeer-Khan and Jean Claude Sevathian; the authors of previous studies of Diospyros that contributed data to GenBank which provided the framework for this study including Sutee Duangjai, Barbara Turner, J{\'e}r{\^o}me Munzinger, Eva M. Temsch, Reinhold Stockenhuber, Michael H.J. Barfuss, Mark W. Chase, Rosabelle Samuel, F{\'e}lix Forest, Bruno Walln{\"o}fer and Gunter Fischer; the collectors who contributed to the Missouri Botanical Garden{\textquoteright}s DNA bank; and Michael Fay, members of Edwards and Miller labs, as well as anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This project was funded by the Franklinia Foundation (PI: GES), the National Geographic Society (grant number 9664-15, PI: CEE) and a graduate student research award to AGL from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Alexander Linan was supported in part through a graduate assistantship and tuition scholarship provided by Saint Louis University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1093/botlinnean/boz034",
language = "English",
volume = "190",
pages = "359--373",
journal = "Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society",
issn = "0024-4074",
number = "4",
}