Compositional bias may affect both DNA-based and protein-based phylogenetic reconstructions

被引:262
作者
Foster, PG [1 ]
Hickey, DA [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ottawa, Dept Biol, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
关键词
G + C content; composition bias; phylogenetic analysis; mitochondrial genes;
D O I
10.1007/PL00006471
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
It is now well-established that compositional bias in DNA sequences can adversely affect phylogenetic analysis based on those sequences. Phylogenetic analyses based on protein sequences are generally considered to be more reliable than those derived from the corresponding DNA sequences because it is believed that the use of encoded protein sequences circumvents the problems caused by nucleotide compositional biases in the DNA sequences. There exists, however, a correlation between AT/GC bias at the nucleotide level and content of AT- and CC-rich codons and their corresponding amino acids. Consequently, protein sequences can also be affected secondarily by nucleotide compositional bias. Here, we report that DNA bias not only may affect phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequences, but also drives a protein bias which may affect analyses based on protein sequences. We present a striking example where common phylogenetic tools fail to recover the correct tree from complete animal mitochondrial protein-coding sequences. The data set is very extensive, containing several thousand sites per sequence, and the incorrect phylogenetic trees are statistically very well supported. Additionally, neither the use of the LogDet/paralinear transform nor removal of positions in the protein alignment with AT- or CC-rich codons allowed recovery of the correct tree. Two taxa with a large compositional bias continually group together in these analyses, despite a lack of close biological relatedness. We conclude that even protein-based phylogenetic trees may be misleading, and we advise caution in phylogenetic reconstruction using protein sequences, especially those that are compositionally biased.
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页码:284 / 290
页数:7
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