BIOS E-127 –
Phenetics vs. cladistics
Lysozyme amino acid changes in unrelated ruminants Phenetics vs. cladistics
Maximum Parsimony
Microbial systematics Formerly Pseudomonas (partial list): Ralstonia, Burkholderia, Hydrogenophaga, Sphingomonas, Methylobacterium, Cellvibrio, Xanthomonas, Acidovorax, Hydrogenophillus, Brevundimonas, Pandoraea
Molecular phylogenetics Zuckerkandl & Pauling Molecules as documents of evolutionary history. J Theor Biol. 8: Neutral theory (Motoo Kimura, 1968)
16S rRNA as phylogenetic marker Why a good molecule?
Good Dataset [A1, A2, A3, A4] [A1, B2, A3, A4] Bad Dataset A B species 1 species 2 species 3 species 4 A1 B1 A2 B2 A4 B4 A3 B3 Ortholog vs. paralog?
CGGATAAAC CGGATAGAC CGCGATAAAC CGGATAAC taxa1 taxa2 taxa3 taxa4 Alignment
Example: Neighbor Joining (NJ) Taxa Characters Species A ATGGCTATTCTTATAGTACG Species B ATCGCTAGTCTTATATTACA Species C TTCACTAGACCTGTGGTCCA Species D TTGACCAGACCTGTGGTCCG Species E TTGACCAGTTCTCTAGTTCG A B C D E Choose methods: distance-based A B C D E Species A Species B Species C Species D Species E ---- A B C D E Species A Species B Species C Species D Species E M(AB)=d(AB) -[(r(A) + r(B))/(N-2)]
Ancestral Sequences Observed Sequences ? Model Choose “model”
Maximum Parsimony (MP): Model: Evolution goes through the least number of changes Maximum Likelihood (ML): L (data| model) Bayesian Inference Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for sampling from posterior probability distribution Discrete character methods
I. Bootstrap Re-sampling to produce pseudo-dataset (random weighting) II. Jacknife Sampling with replacement III. Permutation test Random deletion of sub-dataset Randomize dataset to build null likelihood distribution CGATCGTTA CAATGATAG CGCTGATAA CGCTGATCG taxa1 taxa2 taxa3 taxa Dataset1: Dataset2: … Dataset1: Dataset2: … Assess reliability
Reconstructed ancestral sequences to infer paleoenvironment (Gaucher et al., 2003)
Signs of selection (Sawyer & Malik, 2006)
5. Assess Reliability Molecular clock: HIV-1 origin (Korber et al., 2000)
Genetic exchange in bacteria/archaea
Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition (Hacker & Carniel, 2001)
Monday (10/6): Microbial species, biogeography & population genetics II.