Philip, Gayle K., Creevey, Christopher J. and McInerney, James O. (2005) The Opisthokonta and the Ecdysozoa May Not Be Clades: Stronger Support for the Grouping of Plant and Animal than for Animal and Fungi and Stronger Support for the Coelomata than Ecdysozoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22. pp. 1175-1184.
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Abstract
In considering the best possible solutions for answering phylogenetic questions from genomic sequences, we have chosen a
strategy that we suggest is superior to others that have gone previously. We have ignored multigene families and instead
have used single-gene families. This minimizes the inadvertent analysis of paralogs. We have employed strict data controls
and have reasoned that if a protein is not capable of recovering the uncontroversial parts of a phylogenetic tree, then why
should we use it for the more controversial parts? We have sliced and diced the data in as many ways as possible in order to
uncover the signals in that data. Using this strategy, we have tested two controversial hypotheses concerning eukaryotic
phylogenetic relationships: the placement of arthropoda and nematodes and the relationships of animals, plants, and fungi.
We have constructed phylogenetic trees from 780 single-gene families from 10 completed genomes and amalgamated these
into a single supertree. We have also carried out a total evidence analysis on the only universally distributed protein families
that can accurately reconstruct the uncontroversial parts of the phylogenetic tree: a total of five families. In doing so, we
ignore the majority of single-gene families that are universally distributed as they do not have the appropriate signals to
recover the uncontroversial parts of the tree. We have also ignored every protein that has ever been used previously to
address this issue, simply because none of them meet our strict criteria. Using these data controls, site stripping, and
multiple analyses, 24 out of 26 analyses strongly support the grouping of vertebrates with arthropods (Coelomata hypothesis)
and plants with animals. In the other two analyses, the data were ambivalent. The latter finding overturns an 11-year
theory of Eukaryotic evolution; the first confirms what has already been said by others. In the light of this new tree, we
reanalyze the evolution of intron gain and loss in the rpL14 gene and find that it is much more compatible with the hypothesis
presented here than with the Opisthokonta hypothesis.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | coelonata, ecdysozoa, molecular evolution, opisthokonta, phylogeny reconstruction. |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology |
Item ID: | 673 |
Depositing User: | Dr. James McInerney |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2007 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Molecular Biology and Evolution |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/673 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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