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Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree.
Irisarri, Iker Baurain, Denis Brinkmann, Henner Delsuc, Frédéric Sire, Jean-Yves Kupfer, Alexander Petersen, Jörn Jarek, Michael Meyer, Axel Vences, Miguel
Irisarri, Iker
Baurain, Denis
Brinkmann, Henner
Delsuc, Frédéric
Sire, Jean-Yves
Kupfer, Alexander
Petersen, Jörn
Jarek, Michael
Meyer, Axel
Vences, Miguel
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2017-09-01
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Phylogenomics is extremely powerful but introduces new challenges as no agreement exists on "standards" for data selection, curation and tree inference. We use jawed vertebrates (Gnathostomata) as model to address these issues. Despite considerable efforts in resolving their evolutionary history and macroevolution, few studies have included a full phylogenetic diversity of gnathostomes and some relationships remain controversial. We tested a novel bioinformatic pipeline to assemble large and accurate phylogenomic datasets from RNA sequencing and find this phylotranscriptomic approach successful and highly cost-effective. Increased sequencing effort up to ca. 10Gbp allows recovering more genes, but shallower sequencing (1.5Gbp) is sufficient to obtain thousands of full-length orthologous transcripts. We reconstruct a robust and strongly supported timetree of jawed vertebrates using 7,189 nuclear genes from 100 taxa, including 23 new transcriptomes from previously unsampled key species. Gene jackknifing of genomic data corroborates the robustness of our tree and allows calculating genome-wide divergence times by overcoming gene sampling bias. Mitochondrial genomes prove insufficient to resolve the deepest relationships because of limited signal and among-lineage rate heterogeneity. Our analyses emphasize the importance of large curated nuclear datasets to increase the accuracy of phylogenomics and provide a reference framework for the evolutionary history of jawed vertebrates.
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