Late Neogene history of the laurel tree (Laurus L., Lauraceae) based on phylogeographical analyses of Mediterranean and Macaronesian populations

By F. Rodríguez‐Sánchez, B. Guzmán, A. Valido, P. Vargas, J. Arroyo. 2009

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Aim The post‐glacial range dynamics of many European plant species have been widely investigated, but information rapidly diminishes as one moves further back in time. Here we infer the historical range shifts of Laurus, a paradigmatic tree of the Tethyan flora that has covered southern Eurasia since the Oligo‐Miocene, by means of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analyses.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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From Mediterranean shores to central Saharan mountains: key phylogeographical insights from the genus Myrtus (2012, background): “An east–west structure of intraspecific genetic diversity across the Mediterranean region has been described in most of the phylogeographical studies of species with Neogene origin, such as Olea europaea (Besnard et al., 2007a, 2009) and Laurus spp. (Rodrı́guez-Sánchez et al., 2009).”
A reconstruction of Palaeo‐Macaronesia, with particular reference to the long‐term biogeography of the Atlantic island laurel forests (2011, background): “Noting that the genetic diversity of Macaronesian Laurus is greater than that of Iberian populations, Rodrı́guez-Sánchez et al. (2009) argue that the Macaronesian Laurus have probably been isolated for a lengthy period of time (consistent with the age of fossils according to Heer, 1855).”
Past tree range dynamics in the Iberian Peninsula inferred through phylogeography and palaeodistribution modelling: A review (2010, methodology): “The single most comprehensive phylogeographical study of a Mediterranean lauroid species is that of Rodríguez-Sánchez et al. (2009) on Laurus nobilis.”