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Molecular Systematics• Systematics - the science of identifying, naming, and classifying living organisms into groups• A natural activity of the human brain• Aristotle - Scala Naturae, or “Chain of Life,” which consisted of God, man, mammals, oviparous with perfect eggs (e.g., birds), oviparous with nonperfect eggs (e.g., fish), insects, plants, and non-living matter.• Dominated for ~2000 yrs but made no real attempt at an orderly, consistent classification• Lineaus and others – downward classification
• Dividing larger groups into smaller ones via dichotomies• Actually a method of ‘identification’ not ‘classification’• Highly dependent on the order in which the dichotomies were investigated
• Upward classification – • Grouping organisms with similar characteristics
• Still, all of this was influenced heavily by the idea of archetypes, distinct types or kinds of organisms that are unchanging• This was an attempt to find a ‘natural’ system. But, what is the basis for this ‘natural’ system?
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Molecular Systematics• Enter The Origin of Species• Provided the rationale for a coherent system
• Common descent as the basis for classification
• Phylogenetic Systematics• Classifying organisms based on evolutionary relationships• “The time will come, I believe, though I shall not live to see it, when we shall have fairly true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of Nature” - Charles Darwin
• Therefore, 2 goals for phylogenetics• (1) reconstruct life's geneology• (2) use geneology as basis for classification.
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
• Classify organisms according to evolutionary history• bring order to the chaos of living things
There is only one "fundamental law" in biology: life evolves. That's it. The messiness comes because life is an emergent property of chemistry and physics. Just like a grain of sand acts differently than a pile of sand, so too do physics and chemistry act differently than biology - the amount of interacting forces that happen in biology are orders of magnitudes more than in physics and chemistry
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
•Determine evolutionary patterns and processes in organisms• evolutionary rates among organisms (speciation, extinction, morphological change)• identification of key adaptations• correlations between traits or characters
FOXP2 in bats and other mammals
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
• Determine evolutionary patterns and processes in genomes•
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
• Inform conservation efforts
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
• Inform medical and forensic genetics
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Molecular Systematics• What can we do with molecular phylogenies?
• Investigate population histories and demography
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Molecular Systematics• Tree – a mathematical model of a proposed evolutionary history of organisms or some aspect of organisms• The ultimate goal of phylogenetics is to recover an accurate tree of life
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Molecular Systematics
(OTU)
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Molecular Systematics• Levels of resolution
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Molecular Systematics• Polytomies
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Molecular Systematics• Cladograms, phylograms, phenograms, etc…• Cladogram – illustrates evolutionary relationships of organisms via relative common ancestry
• branch lengths are meaningless and arbitrary
• Phylogram – illustrates relationships of organisms with branch lengths proportional to time or similarity
• a subset of cladograms
• Phenogram – illustrates relative amounts of similarity or difference (NOTE: intent is not necessarily to represent common ancestry)
• more on this distinction later
CladogramCladogram
PhylogramPhylogram
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Molecular Systematics• Rooted vs. unrooted trees• Rooted trees have a node from which all other nodes have descended
• It is directional• Allow for the inference of ancestor-descendant relationships
• Unrooted trees lack a root, direction and indications of ancestral relationships
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Molecular Systematics• Rooted vs. unrooted trees• Rooted trees have a node from which all other nodes have descended
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Root D
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• Rooted vs. unrooted trees• Two major ways to root a tree
By outgroup: Use taxa (the “outgroup”) that are known to fall outside of the group of interest (the “ingroup”). Requires prior knowledge about the relationships among the taxa.
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By midpoint:Roots the tree at the midway point between the two most distant taxa in the tree, as determined by branch lengths. Assumes that the taxa are evolving in a clock-like manner.
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d (A,D) = 10 + 3 + 5 = 18Midpoint = 18 / 2 = 9
Molecular Systematics
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Molecular Systematics• Rooted vs. unrooted trees• Most phylogenetic methods infer unrooted trees• Thus, choosing a root is an extremely important decision• 5 potential roots to this one unrooted tree
• each one has a different interpretation
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Molecular Systematics• Rooted vs. unrooted trees• Numbers of rooted and unrooted trees
Possible Number of
Rooted trees Unrooted trees
2 1 1
3 3 1
4 15 3
5 105 15
6 945 105
7 10395 945
8 135135 10395
9 2027025 135135
10 34459425 2027025
Number of OTU’s
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Molecular Systematics• More terminology• Tree -phyly• Monophyletic groups – a group on a tree that includes one ancestor and the all terminal taxa that arose from it.• Paraphyletic groups – A group of terminal taxa and ancestor(s) that excludes one or more members• Polyphyletic – A completely unnatural grouping of terminal taxa
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Molecular Systematics• More terminology• Tree -phyly• Monophyletic – Archosauria, Lepidosauria• Paraphyletic – “reptiles”, “dinosaurs”• Polyphyletic – “ homeotherms”
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Molecular Systematics• Gene trees vs. species trees• We usually assume that trees inferred from molecular data (sequences) reflect the history of the organisms. What happens when we assume?
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Molecular Systematics• Incomplete lineage sorting• We usually assume that trees inferred from molecular data (sequences)
reflect the history of the organisms. What happens when we assume?
Salem et al. 2003, PNAS
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Molecular Systematics• More terminology• Characters and character states• Organisms comprise sets of features• A particular feature that is heritable is a “character”
• a nucleotide position, the shape of a bone, presence or absence of a bone
• When taxa differ with respect to a feature (e.g. the presence or absence or difference of a base at a particular locus) the different conditions are called “character states”• Character states can be discrete or continuous, reversible or nonreversible, ordered or non-ordered, ancestral or derived (polarity)
Character Possible states
Nucleotide position A, T, C, G, gap
TE insertion Presence, absence
Amino acid Polar, nonpolar, acid, base, etc
Mandibular symphysis Unfused, partially fused, ossified
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Molecular Systematics• Homology assignment
• All phylogenetic methods (molecular and morphological) assume that you are comparing homologous loci/structures• Homologous – sharing a common ancestor• Two loci are either homologous or not, there is no such thing as 95% homologous – 95% similar, yes; 95% homologous, no• Homology comes in two flavors• Paralogy – loci originating from a duplication event recent enough to reveal their common ancestry• Orthology – loci that share ancestry via lineage divergence • One must be able to discern the two a priori
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Molecular Systematics• More terminology• Homoplasy• Similarity that is not homologous (not due to common ancestry)• Can be the result of convergence, parallelism, reversals of state• Can provide misleading evidence of phylogenetic affinity (if interpreted incorrectly as homology)• Common in DNA sequence data
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Molecular Systematics• Challenges to inferring trees with molecular data• Paralogy
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Molecular Systematics• Challenges to inferring trees with molecular data• Gene conversion
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Molecular Systematics• Challenges to inferring trees with molecular data• Varying rates of mutation
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Molecular Systematics• Challenges to inferring trees with molecular data• Horizontal gene transfer
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Identity by Descent/State
Species A
Species A
Species A’ Species B
Identity By Descent
time
Identity By State
Species AATGGTCC
Species BATGATCC
Species AATGGTCC
Species BATGGTCC
insertion
mutation