Gene tree parsimony of multilocus snake venom protein families reveals species tree conflict as a result of multiple parallel gene loss.

Casewell, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8035-4719, Wagstaff, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-5537, Harrison, Robert and Wüster, Wolfgang (2011) 'Gene tree parsimony of multilocus snake venom protein families reveals species tree conflict as a result of multiple parallel gene loss.'. Molecular biology and evolution, Vol 28, Issue 3, pp. 1157-72.

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Abstract

The proliferation of gene data from multiple loci of large multigene families has been greatly facilitated by considerable recent advances in sequence generation. The evolution of such gene families, which often undergo complex histories and different rates of change, combined with increases in sequence data, pose complex problems for traditional phylogenetic analyses, and in particular, those that aim to successfully recover species relationships from gene trees. Here, we implement gene tree parsimony analyses on multicopy gene family data sets of snake venom proteins for two separate groups of taxa, incorporating Bayesian posterior distributions as a rigorous strategy to account for the uncertainty present in gene trees. Gene tree parsimony largely failed to infer species trees congruent with each other or with species phylogenies derived from mitochondrial and single-copy nuclear sequences. Analysis of four toxin gene families from a large expressed sequence tag data set from the viper genus Echis failed to produce a consistent topology, and reanalysis of a previously published gene tree parsimony data set, from the family Elapidae, suggested that species tree topologies were predominantly unsupported. We suggest that gene tree parsimony failure in the family Elapidae is likely the result of unequal and/or incomplete sampling of paralogous genes and demonstrate that multiple parallel gene losses are likely responsible for the significant species tree conflict observed in the genus Echis. These results highlight the potential for gene tree parsimony analyses to be undermined by rapidly evolving multilocus gene families under strong natural selection.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gene tree parsimony; multigene family; multiple copy genes; snake venom toxins; Bayesian posterior distributions; Serpentes: Viperidae: Echis
Subjects:	QU Biochemistry > Genetics > QU 450 General Works WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or Environmental Origin, etc > Animal Poisons > WD 410 Reptiles
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq302
Depositing User:	Mary Creegan
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2011 11:50
Last Modified:	25 Jan 2022 09:36
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/2026

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