BME 130 – Genomes Lecture 26 Molecular phylogenies I
Cacao genome sequenced
A phylogeny
How can we construct a phylogeny?
Convergent evolution (homoplasy)
apomorphic plesiomorphic
Molecular phylogenies with sequence data Benefits?
Number of trees # taxa# unrooted trees # rooted trees
Outgroup can root a tree
Anc: ACGTCGAGTTATTA A: ATGTCGGGTTATTA B: ACGTCGAGTCATTC C: ACGCTGAGTCATTA
Patterson and Reich (2006) Nature 441(7097):1103
Sequence alignment is necessary for phylogenetic analysis
Distance methods for phylogenetic reconstruction: UPGMA: pick two closest nodes, collapse, continue Neighbor-joining (NJ): pick two nodes that minimize total branch length, collapse, continue
Bootstrapping to measure robustness of phylogenetic tree
Phylogenetic methods that search tree-space Maximum parsimony: correct tree is the one requiring the fewest changes Maximum-likelihood: p(D|tree, M)
The molecular clock