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Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree
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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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Léonard, R. R., Leleu, M., Vlierberghe, M. V., Cornet, L., Kerff, F., & Baurain, D. (2021) · PeerJ · doi:10.7717/peerj.11348 · Cited by 7
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Molecular dating of the blood pigment hemocyanin provides new insight into the origin of animals
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“…relationships among organisms stands as a pivotal objective and prerequisite for numerous biological investigations, which are commonly illustrated through phylogenetic trees (Darwin, 1859; Dobzhansky, 1973; Schluter, 2000; Grant & Grant, 2007; Boyd et al. , 2017; Irisarri et al. , 2017).”
Cryptic species are widespread across vertebrates
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Multiple origins of a frameshift insertion in a mitochondrial gene in birds and turtles
Andreu‐Sánchez, S., Chen, W., Stiller, J., & Zhang, G. (2021) · GigaScience · doi:10.1093/gigascience/giaa161 · Cited by 8
Evolution of posture in amniotes–Diving into the trabecular architecture of the femoral head
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Recent progress in phylogenomic methods
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“…(Oliveira et al. 2011; Arcila et al. 2017; Betancur-R et al. 2019), morphological (Mirande 2009, 2010) and combined (Mirande 2019) phylogenies, providing strong support for the reappearance of these teeth after an absence of 200-300 million years (Irisarri et al. 2017; Hughes et al. 2018).”
BackgroundLyra, M. L., Monteiro, J. P. C., Rancilhac, L., Irisarri, I., Künzel, S., Sanchez, E., Condez, T. H., Rojas-Padilla, O., Solé, M., Toledo, L. F., et al. (2021) · Toxins · doi:10.3390/toxins13110816 · Cited by 7
“For the present study, we used the original 100-taxa dataset of [48] and enriched it with the newly sequenced Brachycephalus and Ischnocnema transcriptomes, using a new, separate round searches and alignments with the software “42”.”
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“Actually, thanks to the use of a large dataset, recent phylogenomic analyses effectively resolved that lungfishes (Dipnoi) are the sister group of tetrapods (Amemiya et al., 2013; Chen, Zou, Yang, & He, 2012; Irisarri et al., 2017; Irisarri & Meyer, 2016).”
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The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fin appendagesPreprint
Marlétaz, F., de la Calle‐Mustienes, E., Acemel, R. D., Nakamura, T., Paliou, C., Naranjo, S., Martínez‐García, P. M., Cases, I., Sleight, V. A., Hirschberger, C., et al. (2022) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2022.03.21.485123 · Cited by 7
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mPartition: A Model-Based Method for Partitioning Alignments
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Leaping through Tree Space: Continuous Phylogenetic Inference for Rooted and Unrooted Trees
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“To perform a more detailed evaluation of our framework, we tested GradME’s robustness for topological inference by finding the root of the large jawed vertebrates dataset from Irisarri et al. (2017) with 99 taxa and 4593 genes.”
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“If nociceptin was not important, it is difficult to envision why an identical structure is found across the tetrapods together with non-tetrapod Sarcopterygians.”
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“Importantly, Irisarri et al. (2017) utilised >7000 loci in their study (several thousand more than previous studies; Table 1); thus, it is likely that phylotranscriptomics will play a prominent role in the future of snake phylogenomics.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialThe Influence of Model Violation on Phylogenetic Inference: A Simulation StudyPreprint
Naser-Khdour, S., Minh, B. Q., & Lanfear, R. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.09.22.461455 · Cited by 6
The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period
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The evolution of muscle spindles
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“In attempting to answer this question, our starting point is the recent reconstruction of evolutionary relationships for jawed vertebrates based on trans-criptomic analysis of 100 species, including representatives of all major gnathostome groups (Irisarri et al., 2017).”
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“While there are disparate estimations between phylogenomic ( Irisarri et al., 2017 ) and total-evidence data ( Pyron, 2017 ) especially for groups such as Gekkota, it is unlikely to affect the ancestral range estimation.”
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A guide to phylotranscriptomic analysis for phycologists
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Contrasting Macroevolutionary Patterns in the Human N-Glycosylation Pathway
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Loss of noggin1, a classic embryonic inducer gene, in elasmobranchs
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Self-citationApplication of genomic markers generated for ray-finned fishes in chondrichthyan Phylogenomics
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“Further, with high node support values, our phylogenomic tree of 26 jawed fish species was identical with recent phylogenomic studies of fish species (Hughes et al., 2018; Irisarri et al., 2017), further validating the applicability of these genomic exons markers in jawed fish phylogeny.”
BackgroundResultBelato, F. A., Mello, B., Coates, C. J., Halanych, K. M., Brown, F. D., Morandini, A. C., Leme, J. D. M., Trindade, R. I. F., & Costa-Paiva, E. M. (2023) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12577 · Cited by 4
“…methods to infer dates of divergence essential to elucidating evolutionary processes that led to the diversification of major taxa through Earth's geological history (Delsuc et al., 2018; dos Reis et al., 2015; Ho & Duchêne, 2014; Irisarri et al., 2017 ; Misof et al., 2014; Wolfe et al., 2019 ).”
Method
Metadata
- Authors
- Irisarri, I., Baurain, D., Brinkmann, H., Delsuc, F., Sire, J.-Y., Kupfer, A., Petersen, J., Jarek, M., Meyer, A., Vences, M., & Philippe, H.
- Affiliations
- Uppsala University (SE)
- University of Liège (BE)
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (DE)
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (DE)
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Irisarri, Iker
- Philippe, Hervé
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Published
- 2017-07-24
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1370-1378
- ISSN
- 2397-334X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5584656
- OpenAlex
- W2739198517
- Cited by
- 299
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 12.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
- HZI (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1150725)
- European Commission (273900)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1117545)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0041, 2017-, ANR-12-BSV7-0020, ANR-10-LABX- 41, 12-BSV7-020, ANR-12, ANR-10, 10-LABX-41)
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS (# 2.5020.11, 1117545, 2.5020)
- Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (1117545, 2.5020.11)
- Universität Konstanz
- Instituto de Física de Cantabria
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Keywords
- jawed vertebrates, Gnathostomata, timetree, phylotranscriptomics, phylogenomics, divergence time estimation, mitochondrial genome, transcriptome assembly, phylogenetic diversity, macroevolution
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