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GENESIS
Volume 46, Issue 11, Pages 592-604Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20450
Keywords
phylogenomics; deuterostomes; chordates; tunicates; cephalochordates; olfactores; ribosomal RNA; jackknife; evolution
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- ISEM 2008-062 of the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution [UMR5554-CNRS]
- High Council for Scientific and Technological Cooperation
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Recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested tunicates instead of cephalochordates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates. In direct contradiction with the long accepted view of Euchordates, this new phylogenetic hypothesis for chordate evolution has been the object of some skepticism. We assembled an expanded phylogenomic dataset focused on deuterostomes. Maximum-likelihood using standard models and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses using the CAT site-heterogeneous mixture model of amino-acid replacement both provided unequivocal support for the sister-group relationship between tunicates and vertebrates (Olfactores). Chordates were recovered as monophyletic with cephalochordates as the most basal lineage. These results were robust to both gene sampling and missing data. New analyses of ribosomal rRNA also recovered Olfactores when compositional bias was alleviated. Despite the inclusion of 25 taxa representing all major lineages, the monophyly of deuterostomes remained poorly supported. The implications of these phylogenetic results for interpreting chordate evolution are discussed in light of recent advances from evolutionary developmental biology and genomics. genesis 46:592-604, 2008. (C) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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