Publication: Coalescent analysis of phylogenomic data confidently resolves the species relationships in the Anopheles gambiae species complex
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2018-01-01
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15371719
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07374038
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Mahidol University
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Molecular Biology and Evolution. Vol.35, No.10 (2018), 2512-2527
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Yuttapong Thawornwattana, Daniel Dalquen, Ziheng Yang Coalescent analysis of phylogenomic data confidently resolves the species relationships in the Anopheles gambiae species complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Vol.35, No.10 (2018), 2512-2527. doi:10.1093/molbev/msy158 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/44875
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Coalescent analysis of phylogenomic data confidently resolves the species relationships in the Anopheles gambiae species complex
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Deep coalescence and introgression make it challenging to infer phylogenetic relationships among closely related species that arose through radiative speciation events. Despite numerous phylogenetic analyses and the availability of whole genomes, the phylogeny in the Anopheles gambiae species complex has not been confidently resolved. Here we extract over 80, 000 coding and noncoding short segments (called loci) from the genomes of six members of the species complex and use a Bayesian method under the multispecies coalescent model to infer the species tree, which takes into account genealogical heterogeneity across the genome and uncertainty in the gene trees. We obtained a robust estimate of the species tree from the distal region of the X chromosome: (A. merus, ((A. melas, (A. arabiensis, A. quadriannulatus)), (A. gambiae, A. coluzzii))), with A. merus to be the earliest branching species. This species tree agrees with the chromosome inversion phylogeny and provides a parsimonious interpretation of inversion and introgression events. Simulation informed by the real data suggest that the coalescent approach is reliable while the sliding-window analysis used in a previous phylogenomic study generates artifactual species trees. Likelihood ratio test of gene flow revealed strong evidence of autosomal introgression from A. arabiensis into A. gambiae (at the average rate of 0:2 migrants per generation), but not in the opposite direction, and introgression of the 3 L chromosomal region from A. merus into A. quadriannulatus. Our results highlight the importance of accommodating incomplete lineage sorting and introgression in phylogenomic analyses of species that arose through recent radiative speciation events.