Charley G.P. McCarthy
Improving Orthologous Signal and Model Fit in Datasets Addressing the Root of the Animal Phylogeny
McCarthy, Charley G.P.; Mulhair, Peter O.; Siu-Ting, Karen; Creevey, Christopher J.; O’Connell, Mary J.
Authors
Peter O. Mulhair
Karen Siu-Ting
Christopher J. Creevey
Professor and Chair of Molecular Evolution MARY O'CONNELL MARY.O'CONNELL@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Molecular Evolution
Contributors
Jeffrey Townsend
Editor
Abstract
There is conflicting evidence as to whether Porifera (sponges) or Ctenophora (comb jellies) comprise the root of the animal phylogeny. Support for either a Porifera-sister or Ctenophore-sister tree has been extensively examined in the context of model selection, taxon sampling, and outgroup selection. The influence of dataset construction is comparatively understudied. We re-examine five animal phylogeny datasets that have supported either root hypothesis using an approach designed to enrich orthologous signal in phylogenomic datasets. We find that many component orthogroups in animal datasets fail to recover major lineages as monophyletic with the exception of Ctenophora, regardless of the supported root. Enriching these datasets to retain orthogroups recovering ≥3 major lineages reduces dataset size by up to 50% while retaining underlying phylogenetic information and taxon sampling. Site-heterogeneous phylogenomic analysis of these enriched datasets recovers both Porifera-sister and Ctenophora-sister positions, even with additional constraints on outgroup sampling. Two datasets which previously supported Ctenophora-sister support Porifera-sister upon enrichment. All enriched datasets display improved model fitness under posterior predictive analysis. While not conclusively rooting animals at either Porifera or Ctenophora, we do see an increase in signal for Porifera-sister and a decrease in signal for Ctenophore-sister when data are filtered for orthologous signal. Our results indicate that dataset size and construction as well as model fit influence animal root inference.
Citation
McCarthy, C. G., Mulhair, P. O., Siu-Ting, K., Creevey, C. J., & O’Connell, M. J. (2023). Improving Orthologous Signal and Model Fit in Datasets Addressing the Root of the Animal Phylogeny. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(1), Article msac276. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac276
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 17, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 18, 2023 |
Publication Date | Jan 18, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Apr 3, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 4, 2023 |
Journal | Molecular Biology and Evolution |
Print ISSN | 0737-4038 |
Electronic ISSN | 1537-1719 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | msac276 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac276 |
Keywords | Genetics; Molecular Biology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16230915 |
Publisher URL | https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/1/msac276/6989790 |
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