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Phylogenetic signal variation in the genomes of medicago (Fabaceae)

Yoder, Jeremy B; Briskine, Roman; Mudge, Joann; Farmer, Andrew; Paape, Timothy; Steele, Kelly; Weiblen, George D; Bharti, Arvind K; Zhou, Peng; May, Gregory D; Young, Nevin D; Tiffin, Peter (2013). Phylogenetic signal variation in the genomes of medicago (Fabaceae). Systematic Biology, 62(3):424-438.

Abstract

Genome-scale data offer the opportunity to clarify phylogenetic relationships that are difficult to resolve with few loci, but they can also identify genomic regions with evolutionary history distinct from that of the species history. We collected whole-genome sequence data from 29 taxa in the legume genus Medicago, then aligned these sequences to the Medicago truncatula reference genome to confidently identify 87 596 variable homologous sites. We used this data set to estimate phylogenetic relationships among Medicago species, to investigate the number of sites needed to provide robust phylogenetic estimates and to identify specific genomic regions supporting topologies in conflict with the genome-wide phylogeny. Our full genomic data set resolves relationships within the genus that were previously intractable. Subsampling the data reveals considerable variation in phylogenetic signal and power in smaller subsets of the data. Even when sampling 5000 sites, no random sample of the data supports a topology identical to that of the genome-wide phylogeny. Phylogenetic relationships estimated from 500-site sliding windows revealed genome regions supporting several alternative species relationships among recently diverged taxa, consistent with the expected effects of deep coalescence or introgression in the recent history of Medicago. [Medicago; phylogenomics; whole-genome resequencing.]

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:National licences > 142-005
Dewey Decimal Classification:580 Plants (Botany)
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Life Sciences > Genetics
Language:English
Date:1 May 2013
Deposited On:09 Nov 2018 18:51
Last Modified:18 Jul 2025 01:41
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1063-5157
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt009
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