Improvement of Molecular Phylogenetic Inference and the Phylogeny of Bilateria - LIRMM - Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
Journal Articles Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1934–1990) Year : 2008

Improvement of Molecular Phylogenetic Inference and the Phylogeny of Bilateria

Abstract

Inferring the relationships among Bilateria has been an active and controversial research area since Haeckel. The lack of a sufficient number of phylogenetically reliable characters was the main limitation of traditional phylogenies based on morphology. With the advent of molecular data, this problem has been replaced by another one, statistical inconsistency, which stems from an erroneous interpretation of convergences induced by multiple changes. The analysis of alignments rich in both genes and species, combined with a probabilistic method (maximum likelihood or Bayesian) using sophisticated models of sequence evolution, should alleviate these two major limitations. We applied this approach to a dataset of 94 genes and 79 species using CAT, a previously developed model accounting for site-specific amino acid replacement patterns. The resulting tree is in good agreement with current knowledge: the monophyly of most major groups (e.g. Chordata, Arthropoda, Lophotrochozoa, Ecdysozoa, Protostomia) was recovered with high support. Two results are surprising and are discussed in an evo-devo framework: the sister-group relationship of Platyhelminthes and Annelida to the exclusion of Mollusca, contradicting the Neotrochozoa hypothesis, and, with a lower statistical support, the paraphyly of Deuterostomia. These results, in particular the status of deuterostomes, need further confirmation, both through increased taxonomic sampling, and future improvements of probabilistic models.
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lirmm-00324421 , version 1 (16-10-2018)

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Nicolas Lartillot, Herve Philippe. Improvement of Molecular Phylogenetic Inference and the Phylogeny of Bilateria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1934–1990), 2008, 363 (1496), pp.1463-1472. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2007.2236⟩. ⟨lirmm-00324421⟩
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