Medina Bujalance, RafaelMatthew JohnsonYang LiuNicholas WildingTerry A. HeddersonNorman WickettBernard Goffinet2024-01-262024-01-262018-03-011055-790310.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.002https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95643This study was made possible through financial support from the US National Science Foundation (grants DEB-1146295, DEB-1354631, and DEB-1240045 to Goffinet; DEB-1239992 and DEB-1342873 to Wickett) as well as the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Liu (grant 31470314). The National Research Foundation of South Africa, the University of Cape Town Research Committee, and the Agence Nationale de La Recherche, Conseil Régional de La Réunion, Conseil R. Medina et al. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120 (2018) 240–247 245 Régional de Guadeloupe, Government of Azores, and Government of Canarias under the framework of the Net-Biome transnational call (MOVECLIM project) provided support to Wilding and HeddersonRapid diversifications of plants are primarily documented and studied in angiosperms, which are perceived as evolutionarily dynamic. Recent studies have, however, revealed that bryophytes have also undergone periods of rapid radiation. The speciose family Funariaceae, including the model taxon Physcomitrella patens, is one such lineage. Here, we infer relationships among major lineages within the Entosthodon-Physcomitrium complex from virtually complete organellar exomes (i.e., 123 genes) obtained through high throughput sequencing of genomic libraries enriched in these loci via targeted locus capture. Based on these extensive exonic data we (1) reconstructed a robust backbone topology of the Funariaceae, (2) confirmed the monophyly of Funaria and the polyphyly of Entosthodon, Physcomitrella, and Physcomitrium, and (3) argue for the occurrence of a rapid radiation within the Entosthodon-Physcomitrium complex that began 28 mya and gave rise more than half of the species diversity of the family. This diversification may have been triggered by a whole genome duplication and coincides with global Eocene cooling that continued through the Oligocene and Miocene. The Funariaceae join a growing list of bryophyte lineages whose history is marked by at least one burst of diversification, and our study thereby strengthens the view that bryophytes are evolutionarily dynamic lineages and that patterns and processes characterizing the evolution of angiosperms may be universal among land plants.engjournal articlehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790317306565http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.78h27restricted access181.15High-throughput sequencing, Targeted enrichment, Organellar genome, BryophytaBotánica (Biología)2417.01 Briología