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Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

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Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny based on 80 genes from 2,881 plastid genomes representing 85% of extant families and all orders. With a well-resolved plastid tree and 62 fossil calibrations, we dated the origin of the crown angiosperms to the Upper Triassic, with major angiosperm radiations occurring in the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous. This estimated crown age is substantially earlier than that of unequivocal angiosperm fossils, and the difference is here termed the ‘Jurassic angiosperm gap’. Our time-calibrated plastid phylogenomic tree provides a highly relevant framework for future comparative studies of flowering plant evolution.

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Fig. 1: Dated phylogenetic tree showing relationships among orders of angiosperms based on a maximum likelihood partitioned analysis of 82,286 bp of DNA sequence from 80 genes of 2,881 plastomes.
Fig. 2: Angiosperm ordinal phylogenetic relationships in PPA (based on the complete 80-gene matrix) versus APG IV.
Fig. 3: Sorted ordinal and interordinal node age estimates using TreePL based on the phylogenetic trees of 80 genes of 2,881 angiosperm plastomes with maximum likelihood analysis.
Fig. 4: Dated family-level angiosperm phylogenetic tree based on 80 genes of 2,881 plastomes with maximum likelihood analysis.

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Sequence alignments underlying analyses and all trees are available from the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bq091cg.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species at the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) for facilitating this study; the curators and staff of the Beijing Botanical Garden (BG), Blue Mountains BG, Brisbane BG, Kunming BG, Missouri BG, Wuhan BG, Royal BG Edinburgh, RBG Kew, RBG Sydney, RBG Victoria (both Melbourne and Cranbourne), San Francisco BG, Shanghai Chenshan BG, South China BG, UC Berkeley BG, Xianhu BG Shenzhen, Xishuangbanna Tropical BG, Yinchuan BG and O. Maurin (Johannesburg, now Kew), J. R. Shevock (California), Y.-M. Shui (Kunming), and N. Zamora (Costa Rica) for samples; and S. R. Manchester (Florida) for critical discussion on fossil selection and calibration. This work was funded by the Strategic Priority Research Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (grant No. XDB31000000 to D.-Z.L.), CAS’ Large-scale Scientific Facilities (grant No. 2017-LSF-GBOWS-02 to D.-Z.L. and J.-B.Y.), KIB’s iFlora initiative (grant No. 2014-4-11 to D.-Z.L.) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. 31570333 to H.-T.L.). P.-F.M. was supported by CAS’ Youth Innovation Promotion Association (grant No. 2015321) and P.S.S. was supported by the Ten Thousand Talents Programme of China and the Yunling International High-end Experts Programme of Yunnan Province.

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  1. Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Hong-Tao Li, Ting-Shuang Yi, Peng-Fei Ma, Ting Zhang, Jun-Bo Yang, Jie Cai, Shu-Dong Zhang, Zhi-Rong Zhang, Jing Yang & De-Zhu Li

  2. CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Lian-Ming Gao, Yang Luo, Hong Wang, Chao-Nan Fu & De-Zhu Li

  3. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Douglas E. Soltis & Pamela S. Soltis

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    Matthew A. Gitzendanner & Douglas E. Soltis

  5. Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA

    Peter W. Fritsch

  6. Department of Botany & Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Michelle van der Bank

  7. Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

    Qing-Feng Wang

  8. Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Toowong, Queensland, Australia

    Jian Wang

  9. Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Chao-Nan Fu & De-Zhu Li

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  12. Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia

    Mark W. Chase

  13. Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Douglas E. Soltis & Pamela S. Soltis

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D.-Z.L, J.-B.Y., H.-T.L., T.-S.Y., D.E.S. and P.S.S. conceived the project and designed the research. T.-S.Y., T.Z., J.C., L.-M.G. and S.-D.Z. designed and carried out field collection work. Q.-F.W., J.W., P.W.F., M.v.d.B., P.M.H. and M.W.C. provided and/or collected samples. J.-B.Y., H.-T.L., Z.-R.Z., C.-N.F. and J.Y. performed DNA laboratory work. M.A.G., D.E.S. and P.S.S. prepared the OneKP dataset. H.-T.L., L.-M.G., T.-S.Y., P.-F.M., D.E.S. and P.S.S. designed and coordinated computational analyses. H.-T.L., T.Z., J.C., Y.L. and H.W. prepared the Figures and Tables. T.-S.Y., Y.L., L.-M.G., P.-F.M., D.-Z.L. and H.W. wrote the supplementary information. D.-Z.L., T.-S.Y., L.-M.G., P.-F.M. and P.W.F. wrote the first manuscript draft with input from all co-authors, particularly P.S.S., M.W.C., D.E.S. and P.M.H.

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Species sampled, including 1,659 newly sequenced samples for this study.

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The details of removal of most rapidly evolving sites using Gblocks.

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Ordinal and interordinal node age estimates using treePL based on the phylogenetics trees of 80 plastid genes of 2,881 samples with ML analysis.

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Familial and interfamilial node age estimates using treePL based on the phylogenetics trees of 80 plastid genes of 2,881 samples with ML analysis.

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Families age estimates using treePL based on the phylogenetics trees of 80 plastid genes of 2,881 samples with ML analysis.

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Li, HT., Yi, TS., Gao, LM. et al. Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap. Nat. Plants 5, 461–470 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0421-0

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