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- Title
Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Lompoc Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon capitatum Eastw., Namaceae), including Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Eriodictyon.
- Authors
Guilliams, C. Matt; Hasenstab-Lehman, Kristen E.
- Abstract
Eriodictyon capitatum (Namaceae) is a narrowly distributed shrub endemic to western Santa Barbara County, where it is known from only 10 extant California Natural Diversity Database element occurrences (EOs). Owing to low numbers of plants in nature, a limited overall extent, and multiple current threats, E. capitatum is listed as Endangered under the Federal Endangered Species Act and as Rare under the California Native Plant Protection Act. In the present study, high-throughput DNA sequence data were analyzed to investigate genetic diversity within and among all accessible EOs; to determine the extent of genetic isolation among EOs; to examine clonality within EOs; and to examine the taxonomic circumscriptions of E. capitatum, E. altissimum, E. angustifolium, and E. californicum through phylogenomic analysis. Population genetic analyses of E. capitatum reveal a pattern of strong genetic differentiation by location/EO. The clonality assessment shows that certain small EOs may support relatively few multilocus genotypes. The phylogenomic analyses strongly support the present-day taxonomic circumscriptions of both E. altissimum and E. capitatum, showing them to be reciprocally monophyletic and sister with strong support. Taken together, these results paint a picture of an evolutionarily and morphologically distinct species known from relatively few, genetically isolated stations.
- Subjects
SANTA Barbara (Calif.); CONSERVATION genetics; GENETIC variation; REPRODUCTIVE isolation; ENDANGERED species; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; POPULATION genetics
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants13010090