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Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method
The rooting of phylogenetic trees permits important inferences about ancestral states and the polarity of evolutionary events. Recently, methods that reconcile discordance between gene-trees and species-trees—tree reconciliation methods—are becoming increasingly popular for rooting species trees. Ro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35888084 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12070995 |
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author | Bremer, Nico Knopp, Michael Martin, William F. Tria, Fernando D. K. |
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description | The rooting of phylogenetic trees permits important inferences about ancestral states and the polarity of evolutionary events. Recently, methods that reconcile discordance between gene-trees and species-trees—tree reconciliation methods—are becoming increasingly popular for rooting species trees. Rooting via reconciliation requires values for a particular parameter, the gene transfer to gene duplication ratio (T:D), which in current practice is estimated on the fly from discordances observed in the trees. To date, the accuracy of T:D estimates obtained by reconciliation analyses has not been compared to T:D estimates obtained by independent means, hence the effect of T:D upon inferences of species tree roots is altogether unexplored. Here we investigated the issue in detail by performing tree reconciliations of more than 10,000 gene trees under a variety of T:D ratios for two phylogenetic cases: a bacterial (prokaryotic) tree with 265 species and a fungal-metazoan (eukaryotic) tree with 31 species. We show that the T:D ratios automatically estimated by a current tree reconciliation method, ALE, generate virtually identical T:D ratios across bacterial genes and fungal-metazoan genes. The T:D ratios estimated by ALE differ 10- to 100-fold from robust, ALE-independent estimates from real data. More important is our finding that the root inferences using ALE in both datasets are strongly dependent upon T:D. Using more realistic T:D ratios, the number of roots inferred by ALE consistently increases and, in some cases, clearly incorrect roots are inferred. Furthermore, our analyses reveal that gene duplications have a far greater impact on ALE’s preferences for phylogenetic root placement than gene transfers or gene losses do. Overall, we show that obtaining reliable species tree roots with ALE is only possible when gene duplications are abundant in the data and the number of falsely inferred gene duplications is low. Finding a sufficient sample of true gene duplications for rooting species trees critically depends on the T:D ratios used in the analyses. T:D ratios, while being important parameters of genome evolution in their own right, affect the root inferences with tree reconciliations to an unanticipated degree. |
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spelling | pubmed-93227202022-07-27 Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method Bremer, Nico Knopp, Michael Martin, William F. Tria, Fernando D. K. Life (Basel) Article The rooting of phylogenetic trees permits important inferences about ancestral states and the polarity of evolutionary events. Recently, methods that reconcile discordance between gene-trees and species-trees—tree reconciliation methods—are becoming increasingly popular for rooting species trees. Rooting via reconciliation requires values for a particular parameter, the gene transfer to gene duplication ratio (T:D), which in current practice is estimated on the fly from discordances observed in the trees. To date, the accuracy of T:D estimates obtained by reconciliation analyses has not been compared to T:D estimates obtained by independent means, hence the effect of T:D upon inferences of species tree roots is altogether unexplored. Here we investigated the issue in detail by performing tree reconciliations of more than 10,000 gene trees under a variety of T:D ratios for two phylogenetic cases: a bacterial (prokaryotic) tree with 265 species and a fungal-metazoan (eukaryotic) tree with 31 species. We show that the T:D ratios automatically estimated by a current tree reconciliation method, ALE, generate virtually identical T:D ratios across bacterial genes and fungal-metazoan genes. The T:D ratios estimated by ALE differ 10- to 100-fold from robust, ALE-independent estimates from real data. More important is our finding that the root inferences using ALE in both datasets are strongly dependent upon T:D. Using more realistic T:D ratios, the number of roots inferred by ALE consistently increases and, in some cases, clearly incorrect roots are inferred. Furthermore, our analyses reveal that gene duplications have a far greater impact on ALE’s preferences for phylogenetic root placement than gene transfers or gene losses do. Overall, we show that obtaining reliable species tree roots with ALE is only possible when gene duplications are abundant in the data and the number of falsely inferred gene duplications is low. Finding a sufficient sample of true gene duplications for rooting species trees critically depends on the T:D ratios used in the analyses. T:D ratios, while being important parameters of genome evolution in their own right, affect the root inferences with tree reconciliations to an unanticipated degree. MDPI 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9322720/ /pubmed/35888084 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12070995 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bremer, Nico Knopp, Michael Martin, William F. Tria, Fernando D. K. Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title | Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title_full | Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title_fullStr | Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title_full_unstemmed | Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title_short | Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method |
title_sort | realistic gene transfer to gene duplication ratios identify different roots in the bacterial phylogeny using a tree reconciliation method |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35888084 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12070995 |
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