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Selecting ribosomal protein genes for invertebrate phylogenetic inferences: how many genes to resolve the Mollusca?
Article first published online: 21 JUL 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00052.x
© 2010 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution © 2010 British Ecological Society
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Meyer, A., Witek, A. and Lieb, B. (2011), Selecting ribosomal protein genes for invertebrate phylogenetic inferences: how many genes to resolve the Mollusca?. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2: 34–42. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00052.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 FEB 2011
- Article first published online: 21 JUL 2010
- Received 26 April 2010; accepted 23 June 2010Handling Editor: Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Keywords:
- EST;
- gene selection;
- Mollusca;
- phylogenomics;
- ribosomal proteins;
- taxon sampling
Summary
1. Multi-gene analyses are currently the gold standard in phylogenetics, despite limited taxon sampling. To facilitate broad taxon representation on an economically tolerable level, we optimize the gene selection for future PCR-based sampling strategies.
2. Highly expressed ribosomal proteins (RP) were sampled chiefly for molluscs, the second largest metazoan phylum with largely unknown internal relationships. Thirty-two new sequences for Lepidochitona cinerea (Polyplacophora) were integrated into a data-matrix of 79 RP genes, comprising 16 mollusc species (five classes). The resulting maximum likelihood tree was used to evaluate each single-gene tree according to its topological fit. Genes were sorted in ascending order, successively concatenated and then evaluated.
3. The most efficient sub-alignment consists of 18 selected genes. All analyses reveal the Mollusca as monophyletic. The phylogenetic utility of the selected and concatenated 18 ribosomal genes is comparable to results from phylogenomic analyses.
4. This optimized data set can be assembled using PCR methods and will allow expanding the taxon coverage in deep molluscan phylogeny far beyond the current sampling.