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Title: Molecular Insights into the Centaurea Calocephala Complex (Compositae) from the Balkans—Does Phylogeny Match Systematics?
Authors: Novaković, Jelica 
Janaćković, Peđa 
Susanna, Alfonso
Lazarević, Maja 
Boršić, Igor
Milanovici, Sretco
Lakušić, Dmitar 
Zlatković, Bojan
Marin, Petar 
Garcia-Jacas, Núria
Keywords: Acrocentron;AGT1;Balkan refugium;Centaurea;Chromosomes;ETS;Gene flow;Introgression;Low copy genes;Species boundaries
Issue Date: 16-May-2022
Rank: M22
Publisher: MDPI
Journal: Diversity
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Start page: 394
Abstract: 
Groups of recent speciation are characterized by high levels of introgression and gene flow, which often confounds delimitation of species on a DNA basis. We analyzed nuclear DNA sequences (ETS spacer and the AGT1 gene) obtained from a large sample of the C. calocephala complex from the Balkan clade of Centaurea sect. Acrocentron (Compositae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) together with a wide representation of other species from the section. Our main goals were to verify the monophyly of the complex as currently defined and to examine the possible presence of introgression and gene flow. Within the complex, species are well-delimited from a morphological point of view and probably originated by allopatric speciation in the Balkan Peninsula. Our results confirm that the Balkan–Eurasian complex is a natural group, but the Centaurea calocephala complex shows a very complicated pattern and its phylogeny is not resolved. Our hypothesis suggests that altitudinal shifts in the transits from glacial to interglacial periods caused successive hybridization events, which are very evident from the DNA networks, between taxa not currently sympatric. As a result, confirmation of interspecific boundaries using molecular markers is extremely complicated.
URI: https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5064
ISSN: 1424-2818
DOI: 10.3390/d14050394
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